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

- Oliver Geden
- Andy Reisinger
Overshoot: Returning to 1.5°C Requires Net-negative Emissions Targets

SWP Comment 2025/C 47, 19.11.2025, 4 Pages

doi:10.18449/2025C47
- Holly Jean Buck
- Alaa Al Khourdajie
- Shinichiro Asayama
- Oliver Geden
Four scenarios for an IPCC navigating Artificial Intelligence

Research Division EU/Europe, Working Paper Nr. 08/2025, September 2025, 15 pages
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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

External publications

- Helene Muri
- Olivier Sulpis
- Gabriela Argüello
- Chelsey A. Baker
- Miranda Böttcher
- et al.
Monitoring, Reporting and Verification for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

in: Muñiz Piniella, A., Rodriguez Perez, A., Kellett, P., Alexander, B., Bayo Ruiz, F., Heymans, J. J. (Eds.), Future Science Brief N°. 13 of the European Marine Board, 2025.

doi:10.5281/zenodo.17435116
- Charlotte Unger
- Sonja Thielges
From Bush to Trump: 25 Years of U.S. Climate Policy Roller Coaster

in: Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, 05.11.2025

doi:10.1007/s12399-025-01070-5
- William Lamb
- Carley Reynolds
- Oliver Geden
- Steve Smith
- Naomi Vaughan
- Greg Nemet
- Katie Lebling
- Morgan Edwards
- Jan Minx
- Matt Gidden
Carbon dioxide removal in the G20 pledges: limited and lacking credibility

State of Carbon Dioxide Removal Insight Report, Oxford, October 2025

doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/X8U9M
- 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

The Climate Policy and Politics dossier

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