Ecologic Institute

As a Fellow with Ecologic Institute, Katharina Umpfenbach focuses on energy and climate policy. She is particularly interested in the development of climate mitigation strategies on the regional and local level as well as the evaluation of their impact. In addition, she also works on economic aspects of climate adaptation, promotion of renewable energies and issues of international climate policy. Katharina works in German, English and French and has basic knowledge of Spanish.

Her past project work includes research on emissions trading, bioenergy and adaptation to climate change. As major project in this area, Katharina Umpfenbach co-ordinated an assessment of future climate change impacts on the sustainability of public finances in Germany. In September 2009, she was seconded to Chatham House’s Energy, Environment and Development Programme for joint research on schemes to compensate forest nations for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD). The stay was funded under the German social-ecological research programme.