Technische Universität Darmstadt (PhD in Economics)
Munich School of Philosophy (BA in Philosophy)
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Diplom in Economics)
Known for
Economics of climate change
Awards
German Environmental Prize (2020)
Scientific career
Fields
Economics
Institutions
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Technical University of Berlin
Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change
Ottmar Georg Edenhofer (born 8 July 1961) is a German economist who is regarded as one of the world's leading experts on climate change policy, environmental and energy policy, and energy economics. His work has been heavily cited.[1] Edenhofer currently holds the professorship of the Economics of Climate Change[2] at the Technical University of Berlin. Together with Earth scientist Johan Rockström, economist Ottmar Edenhofer is scientific director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), representing the interdisciplinary and solutions-oriented approach of the institute. Furthermore, he is director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). From 2008 to 2015 he served as one of the co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III "Mitigation of Climate Change".
Edenhofer is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). In 2020 Professor Edenhofer was honoured with the most prestigious environmental prize in Germany the Environment Prize (German Environment Foundation) for his groundbreaking work in the field of carbon pricing.[3] Before, he was awarded the Romano-Guardini-Prize by the Katholische Akademie in Bayern.[4]
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^"ILAUP: Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer". www.climatecon.tu-berlin.de. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
^"German President recognises German Environmental Award as "a particularly important message"". German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt DBU). Retrieved 29 January 2021.
^"Edenhofer honored with Romano Guardini Prize". Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change. 5 July 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
Ottmar Georg Edenhofer (born 8 July 1961) is a German economist who is regarded as one of the world's leading experts on climate change policy, environmental...
members debate under the Chatham House Rule and include Klaus Töpfer, OttmarEdenhofer, and Claude Turmes. In addition to studies specific to Germany, Agora...
2018 he was succeeded by two joint directors—the climate economist OttmarEdenhofer, and Earth scientist Johan Rockström, formerly director of the Stockholm...
because the supply of land is fixed. Modern economists, including OttmarEdenhofer have demonstrated that George's assertion is plausible but was more...
(SRREN) on May 9, 2011. The report developed under the leadership of OttmarEdenhofer evaluates the global potential for using renewable energy to mitigate...
levies such as a land value tax. Harry Gunnison Brown Raymond Crotty OttmarEdenhofer Fred Foldvary Mason Gaffney Henry George Max Hirsch (economist) Wolf...
Press, Cambridge, UK, and New York, New York, US, 582 pp. IPCC, 2011 – OttmarEdenhofer, Ramón Pichs-Madruga, Youba Sokona, Kristin Seyboth, Patrick Matschoss...
(1895–1980), developer of the Air Force-NASA X-20 Dyna-Soar project. OttmarEdenhofer (born 1961), economist Krafft Arnold Ehricke (1917–1984), rocket-propulsion...
Archived from the original on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2009. OttmarEdenhofer, King Coal and the queen of subsidies. In: Science 349, Issue 6254...
economics and the social sciences. Directed by the climate economist OttmarEdenhofer, MCC currently employs some 50 staff. In 2015 the MCC was designated...
Kammen and Lee Schipper. From 2009 until 2012 he was PI at the Chair of OttmarEdenhofer at Technical University of Berlin, and visiting fellow at the Princeton...
intrinsic uncertainties in earth system modelling (PDF). 2006. p. 120. OttmarEdenhofer, Brigitte Knopf u. a.: The economics of low stabilization: model comparison...
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany OttmarEdenhofer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany Nilüfer Göle...
Sokona has notably been co-chairman of working group III alongside OttmarEdenhofer and Ramón Pichs Madruga, studying the role of renewable energies in...
ministry. With such a plan there can be no ambitious climate protection." OttmarEdenhofer, a German climate economist and director of the MCC, criticized the...
divided and peace prevails. Famous sons and daughters of the town: OttmarEdenhofer (* 8. Juli 1961), Chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate...
Sociology. Retrieved 2007-11-03. Mattauch, Linus; Siegmeier, Jan; Edenhofer, Ottmar; Creutzig, Felix (2013). "Financing Public Capital through Land Rent...
Water Experts 2019 Ingrid Kögel-Knabner [de] Reinhard Schneider 2020 OttmarEdenhofer Annika Roth [de] (née Trappmann) and Hugo Trappmann [de] Martin Sorg...
(International Energy Agency), Norio Okada (Kyoto University, Japan), OttmarEdenhofer (Technical University Berlin, Germany), Richard S.J. Tol (VU University...
Impact Research, working together with PIK's chief-economist Prof. OttmarEdenhofer. In some newspaper articles, e.g. in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung...
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