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Dr. Susanne Dröge

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Research Division:

Global Issues Senior Fellow

Research Cluster Climate Policy and Politics Associate

susanne.droege@swp-berlin.org

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Areas of Expertise

Climate policy
EU climate policy
Energy policy
Environmental policy
Risk governance
United Nations

Focus

Focus on Climate Policy and International Trade, Carbon Flows, Border Carbon Adjustment, Emissions Trading and Carbon Taxes, Green Economy and Sustainable Development

Short Curriculum vitae

October 2022-December 2025: Head of Department Climate Protection and Energy, Umweltbundesamt (UBA)

Positions at SWP

Senior Fellow (since 2015); Head of Global Issues Research Division (rotating position) (2009-2015); Researcher (2006-2009)

Board and committee activities

Honorary Board Member: Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut) (2020-2022); Member of the Executive Committee: Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag (since 2016); Member of the Science and Policy Advisory Board UNEP GEO-5 (2010-2012); Advisory Board Member: Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2011-2022)

SWP Publications

- Susanne Dröge
- Marian Feist
The G7 Summit: Advancing International Climate Cooperation?
- German
Options and Priorities for the German G7 Presidency

SWP Comment 2022/C 34, 19.05.2022

doi:10.18449/2022C34
- Susanne Dröge
- Oliver Geden
Next COP Ahead: Europe Has Work to Do
- German
SWP Comment 2022/C 02, 12.01.2022, 5 Pages

doi:10.18449/2022C02
- Susanne Dröge
- Kirsten Westphal
Integrating Climate Ambition and Energy Diplomacy in Foreign Policy
in:
- Günther Maihold
- Stefan Mair
- Melanie Müller
- Judith Vorrath
- Christian Wagner (eds.)
German Foreign Policy in Transition
- German
Contribution to a Research Paper 2021/RP 10, 13.12.2021, 125 Pages, pp. 79–82
- Susanne Dröge
- Tessa-Sophie Schrader
Back to the Future? International Climate Policy in 2021
- German
New Constellations for the EU’s Climate Diplomacy

SWP Comment 2021/C 14, 16.02.2021, 7 Pages

doi:10.18449/2021C14
Susanne Dröge

The EU’s CO2 Border Adjustment: Climate or Fiscal Policy?
- German
The EU plans to use a CO2 border adjustment on imports to improve its budget. In so doing, it risks eroding the instrument’s credibility as a response to climate change, argues Susanne Dröge.

Point of View, 05.08.2020
The International Dimensions of Germany’s Hydrogen Policy
- German
SWP Comment 2020/C 32, 22.06.2020, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020C32

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External publications

- Michael Mehling
- Harro von Asselt
- Susanne Dröge
- Kasturi Das
The Form and Substance of International Cooperation on Border Carbon Adjustments

in: AJIL Unbound, Vol. 11/2022, pp. 213-218, online by Cambridge University Press, 18 July 2022

doi:10.1017/aju.2022.33
- Michael Jakob et al.
- Susanne Dröge
How trade policy can support the climate agenda

Ensure open markets for clean technologies and products

in: Science, Vol. 376, Issue 6600, 23.06.2022, pp. 1401-1403

doi:10.1126/science.abo4207
- Susanne Dröge
- Maria Panezi
How to Design Border Carbon Adjustments

in: Jakob, Michael (Ed.): Handbook on Trade Policy and Climate Change, pp. 163-179, March 2022

doi:10.4337/9781839103247
- Dominic Lenzi
- Michael Jakob
- Matthias Honegger
- Susanne Dröge
- Clare Heyward
- Tim Kruger
Equity Implications of Net Zero Visions

In: Climatic Change (2021) 169:20

doi:10.1007/s10584-021-03270-2
- Susanne Dröge
- Clara Brandi
- Axel Berger
- Aaron Cosbey
- Manfred Elsig
- Ilaria Espa
- Jean-Frédéric Morin
Trade and Climate Change: A Key Agenda for the G20

in: TF2: Climate Change and Environment, Think20, September 2020
- Susanne Dröge
- Carolyn Fischer
Carbon Pricing at the Border: Key Questions for the EU

in: ifo DICE Report 18 (1), April 2020, p. 30-34

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