Research Cluster Climate and Energy Policy

The Research Cluster analyses the climate and energy policy of the European Union, the processes under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, cooperation in plurilateral initiatives and developments on global energy markets.

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SWP Publications

- Ole Adolphsen
- Sonja Thielges
European Climate Policy Against US Headwinds: In Search of Strong Climate Partnerships
in:
- Barbara Lippert
- Stefan Mair (eds.)
With, Without, Against Washington: Redefining Europe’s Relations With the United States
- German
Contribution to a Research Paper 2026/RP 05, 27.03.2026, 81 Pages, pp. 62–66
- Jule Könneke
- Ole Adolphsen
The Limits of Multilateral Climate Policy
- German
COP30 and the Conflict Between Petrostates and Electrostates

SWP Comment 2026/C 05, 03.02.2026, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2026C05
- Leona Tenkhoff
- Lisa Voigt
The Tropical Forest Forever Facility and Its Role in International Forest Finance
- German
SWP Comment 2026/C 01, 12.01.2026, 6 Pages

doi:10.18449/2026C01
- Oliver Geden
- Andy Reisinger
Overshoot: Returning to 1.5°C Requires Net-negative Emissions Targets
- German
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

External publications

Felix Schenuit

Defending Net-Zero: A New Role for Carbon Dioxide Removal

Zentrum für Liberale Moderne, Policy Brief, 02.04.2026
- C.-B. Sarpey
- S. Avrutin
- R. Steenkamp
- A. Oschlies
- U. Bernitt
- Miranda Böttcher
- N. Mengis
- A. Proelss
Monitoring Environmental Impacts of mCDR Field Tests

in: CDRmare HUB Workshop Report. GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Germany, 19 pp.

doi: 10.3289/CDRmare.58
- Miranda Böttcher
- Malte Winkler
- Axel Michaelowa
Accounting and monitoring challenges for blue carbon enhancement in national climate policy targets and international carbon markets

in: Carbon Management, 16(1), 01.12.2025.

doi:10.1080/17583004.2025.2585895
- 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

The Climate Policy and Politics dossier

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