Dr. Susanne Dröge

Dr. Susanne Dröge


Research Division: Global Issues
Senior Fellow

susanne.droege(at)swp-berlin.org

Twitter: @droege_s

Since 2015 Senior Fellow

 

2009 - 2015  Head of Global Issues Research Division (rotating position)
Since 2006   Researcher at SWP
1999 - 2006  Research associate at the German Institute for Economic Research,
                     (DIW Berlin), Department of Energy, Transportation, Environment
1996 - 1999  Researcher at Leipzig Graduate School of Management,
                     chair of macroeconomics

Since 2016   Member of the Executive Committee: Deutscher Evangelischen Kirchentag
Since 2011   Advisory Board Member: Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit
                     (GIZ)
Since 2010   Advisory Board Member: Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut)

2010 - 2012  Member of Science and Policy Advisory Board UNEP GEO-5
2008 - 2012  Project Leader for Climate Strategies

 

 

 

Areas of Expertise:

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

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


SWP Publications (selection):

Kirsten Westphal, Susanne Dröge, Oliver Geden

The International Dimensions of Germany’s Hydrogen Policy

SWP Comment 2020/C 32, June 2020, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020C32

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Susanne Dröge

Addressing the Risks of Climate Change

What Role for the UN Security Council?

SWP Research Paper 2020/RP 06, June 2020, 34 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020RP06

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Laura von Daniels, Susanne Dröge, Alexandra Bögner

Ways Out of the WTO’s December Crisis

How to Prevent the Open Global Trade Order from Unravelling

SWP Comment 2019/C 46, December 2019, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2019C46

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Susanne Dröge

Climate and Security Revisited

Germany’s Priorities for the 2019/2020 UN Security Council Period

SWP Comment 2018/C 34, August 2018, 7 Pages
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Susanne Dröge, Felix Schenuit

EU Trade and Climate Policy Linkages

Potentials in Times of Repositioning

SWP Comment 2018/C 16, April 2018, 8 Pages
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External Publications (selection):

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
Michael Mehling, Harro van Asselt, Kasturi Das, Susanne Dröge, Cleo Verkuijl

Designing border carbon adjustments for enhanced climate action

in: The American Society of International Law, Vol 113:3, July 2019, p. 433-481

doi:10.1017/ajil.2019.22

Kasturi Das, Harro van Asselt, Susanne Dröge, Michael Mehling

Making the International Trade System Work for Climate Change: Assessing the Options

in: Environmental Law Reporter, Juni 2019, pp: 10553-10580
Aaron Cosbey, Susanne Dröge, Carolyn Fischer, Clayton Munnings

Developing Guidance for Implementing Border Carbon Adjustments: Lessons, Cautions, and Research Needs from the Literature

in: Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 February 2019, Pages 3–22

In the Media/ »Point of View« (selection):

Susanne Dröge

The EU’s CO2 Border Adjustment: Climate or Fiscal Policy?

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
Susanne Dröge, Michael Mehling, Harro van Asselt, Kasturi Das

What a European ‘carbon border tax’ might look like

in: VOX, CEPR Policy Portal, 10.12.2019 (online)
Susanne Dröge, Michael Mehling, Harro van Asselt, Kasturi Das

Comment: What critics of a European ‘carbon border tax’ are missing

in: Carbon Pulse, 03.12.2019 (online)
Susanne Dröge

What to Expect from Chancellor Merkel’s U.S. Visit

Press Call with US-Germany Experts

World Resources Institute, 10.03.2017
Susanne Dröge, Harro van Asselt

Are trade agreements good or bad for the climate?

in: CarbonBrief, Guest post, 28.10.2016 (online)

News

 

Susanne Dröge, Clara Brandi, Axel Berger, Aaron Cosbey, 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
The EU’s CO2 Border Adjustment: Climate or Fiscal Policy?
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

Susanne Dröge
Adressing the Risks of Climate Change
What Role for the UN Security Council?
in: SWP Research Paper 2020/RP 06, June 2020, 34 pages


 

SWP-Dossier: Sustainability, Climate and Energy

SWP Comments

Anne Koch, Jana Kuhnt
Migration and the 2030 Agenda: Making Everyone Count

Migrants and Refugees in the Sustainable Development Goals

David Kipp, Nadine Knapp, Amrei Meier
Negative Sanctions and the EU’s External Migration Policy

“Less for Less” Not Fit for Purpose

SWP Research Papers

Susanne Dröge
Addressing the Risks of Climate Change

What Role for the UN Security Council?

Anne Koch
On the Run in Their Own Country

Political and Institutional Challenges in the Context of Internal Displacement