Research Cluster Climate Policy and Politics

The Research Cluster analyses Germany’s climate diplomacy, the climate policy of the European Union, the processes under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as well as plurilateral fora and initiatives.

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SWP Publications

- Felix Schenuit
International Credits in EU Climate Policy: Old Conflicts, New Challenges
- German
SWP Comment 2025/C 28, 20.06.2025, 7 Pages

doi:10.18449/2025C28
- Felix Schenuit
- Domenik Treß
Scaling Industrial Carbon Dioxide Removal: Policy Options for a Short-Term Strategy
- German
SWP Comment 2025/C 13, 09.04.2025, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2025C13
The International Dimension of European Climate Policy
- German
A Strategy for Integrating the Internal and External Dimensions

SWP Comment 2025/C 03, 20.01.2025, 7 Pages

doi:10.18449/2025C03
- Ole Adolphsen
- Jule Könneke
A New Balance Of Power at the 29th World Climate Conference
- German
International Climate Politics after the US Elections

SWP Comment 2024/C 57, 19.12.2024, 6 Pages

doi:10.18449/2024C57
- Jule Könneke
The EU-Brazil Partnership and the New Climate Geopolitics
- German
Strategically Reconciling Decarbonisation and Competition

SWP Comment 2024/C 56, 12.12.2024, 7 Pages

doi:10.18449/2024C56
Foresight: Multilevel Climate Policy in 2030

Research Division EU/Europe, Working Paper Nr. 02/2024, August 2024, 35 Pages
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External publications

- Matthew J. Gidden
- Siddharth Joshi
- John J. Armitage
- Alina-Berenice Christ
- Miranda Böttcher
- et al.
A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage

in: Nature, 645, pp. 124–132, 03.09.2025.

doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09423-y
- Charlotte Unger
- Sonja Thielges
Quo Vadis U.S. Climate and Energy Policy?

Developments under Trump 2.0.

in: RIFS Discussion Paper, July 2025
- Sonja Thielges
Turning Climate Protection into an Economic Success Story

Foreign policy challenges and opportunities for Germany and the EU

in: American-German Institute, 11.07.2025
- Jeffrey Dankwa Ampah
- Chao Jin
- Haifeng Liu
- Felix Schenuit
- et al.
Scaling carbon removal without delaying emission reductions

in: Nature Reviews Clean Technology, June 2025

doi:10.1038/s44359-025-00081-x
- Ole Adolphsen
Military has understood strategic advantages of low-carbon technology – security researcher

Interview by Benjamin Wehrmann, in: Clean Energy Wire, 12.06.2025
- Chris Vivian
- Miranda Böttcher
- Mike Elliot et al.
A Scientific Summary for Policy-Makers: the State of the Science for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR)

in: Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP), UNESCO-IOC, IOC Technical Series, 209, 2025.

The Climate Policy and Politics dossier

Most publications compiled in our »Climate Policy and Politics« dossier are from members of the Research Cluster.