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Prof. Dr. Niklas Höhne is a founding partner of NewClimate Institute. He is also Special Professor “mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions” at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He follows the international climate negotiations since 1995. He led numerous studies related to the international climate change negotiations and national climate policies, for example several evaluations of countries’ performances in climate change and two publications in Nature. Niklas Höhne is lead and contributing author for the IPCC’s Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Assessment Report for the chapters on climate policies and international cooperation. He is also lead author of all UNEP Emissions Gap reports since 2010. He created the Climate Action Tracker that tracks commitments and actions of countries on climate change.
Niklas Höhne holds a PhD from the University of Utrecht for his dissertation on “What is next after the Kyoto Protocol – Assessment of options for international climate policy post 2012″. His work on sharing the effort of reducing emissions between countries led to the IPCC statement that developed countries would need to reduce emissions by 25% to 40% in 2020 compared to 1990 to be compatible with limiting global temperature increase to 2°C. He participated as expert in hearings of the European and German parliament. Before co-founding NewClimate Institute, Niklas Höhne worked at Ecofys, a leading climate and energy consultancy (2001 to 2014), where he last was Director of Energy and Climate Policy. Previously, he was a staff member of the UNFCCC secretariat (1998 to 2001), where he supported the negotiations on various issues, including reporting under the Kyoto Protocol, projections of greenhouse gas emissions, fluorinated greenhouse gases and emissions from international transport.
Media appearances of Prof. Dr. Niklas Höhne:
Articles
- Quoted in AP, Financial Times, Sueddeutsche Zeitung on 5-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement
- Quoted in BBC, Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Spiegel on the impact of net zero targets on temperature increase, December 2020
- Quoted in AP, Reuters, Bloomberg, CNN, the Guardian, Deutsche Welle and Die Zeit on the US elections and potential impact of a net zero-target of the USA on global temperature, November 2020
- Quoted in the Guardian and Reuters on green recovery and Chinese carbon neutrality target, September 2020
- Quoted in CNN on response to COVID-19 pandemic, September 2020
- Interview in Focus online on impact of Corona pandemic on global greenhouse gas emissions, May 2020 (German)
- Quoted in Washington Post on UNEP emissions gap report, December 2019
- Quoted in Spiegel on Climate Action Tracker report on Germany, December 2019 (German)
- Interview in Focus online on UN climate summit, September 2019 (German)
- Quoted in Washington Post on UN climate summit, September 2019
- Interview in Spiegel Online on climate package of the German government. September 2019 (German)
- Feature in “Die Zeit” on what researchers would do to save the climate, English and German, December 2018
- Interview on carbon pricing in Klimareporter, December 2018 (German)
- Interview in Tagesspiegel on 1.5°C in advance of COP24 in Katowice, December 2018 (German)
- Quoted in CNN on Brown to Green report of climate transparency, November 2018
- Quoted in Washington Post, Zeit-online, DPA, ZDF, Die Welt and others on the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C, October 2018
- Article in Die Zeit on our report on city, region and business action for the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, September 2018 (German)
- Quoted in San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times on the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, September 2018
- Quoted in Washington Post and Huffington Post on one year after the withdrawal of the USA from the Paris Agreement, June 2018
- Quoted in Die Zeit on impact of tourism on the climate, May 2018 (German); on this topic also in Die Zeit (different article), Handelsblatt and Stern
- Quoted in Washington Post on global progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, February 2018
- Interview in DW about NDCs and writing the Paris Accord Rule Book, November 2017
- Interview in DW on outcome of G20 summit on climate, July 2017
- Quoted in Washington Post, New York Times, BBC, Nature, New Scientist, Bloomberg, Huffpost on withdrawal of the USA from the Paris Agreement, June 2017
- Quoted in Washington Post and National Geographic on Trump’s climate policy, May 2017
- Interview in Nature on science policy interface, December 2016
- Interview in Deutschlandfunk on outcome of Marrakech Climate Conference, November 2016 (German)
- Interview in DW on entry into force of the Paris Agreement, October 2016
- Interview in Deutschlandfunk on entry into force of the Paris Agreement, October 2016 (German)
- Quoted by Voice of America TV on the outcome of the Paris Agreement, December 2015
- Quoted by Reuters, Nature, Financial Times on INDCs in 2015
- Quoted in the Financial Times on CCS, September 2015
- Portrait in Der Tagesspiegel, July 2015 (German)
- New Scientist and BR2 radio interview on the new climate targets of China and the USA in December 2014
Audio
- Interview in BBC world service and Bayern 2 (minute 11:29) on impact of net zero targets on temperature increase, December 2020
- Radio talkshow on BBC world service on the impact of the election of Joe Biden on climate change, November 2020
- Interview in SRF on on the impact of the election of Joe Biden on climate change, November 2020 (German)
- Interview in China International Radio: China Plus on the US election and the Chinese carbon neutrality target, November 2020
- Interview in BR2 IQ on North Stream 2 and demand for gas in Germany, September 2020 (German)
- Radio talkshow in WDR5 on climate policy, August 2020 (German)
- Interview in detektor.fm zur Initiative German Zero, May 2020 (German)
- Interview in Deutschlandfunk on the outcome of COP 25 in Madrid, December 2019 (German)
- Interview in WDR5 Quarks on NDC conference in Berlin and UNFCCC conference in Bonn, June 2019 (German)
- Radio talkshow in NDR info on climate policy, June 2019 (German)
- Interview in Deutschlandfunk on overshoot day and CO2 emissions, May 2019 (German)
- Interview in WDR5 on Fridays For Future protests and CO2 pricing, March 2019 (German)
- Interview in Deutschlandfunk on the status of climate action, December 2018 (German)
- Radio talkshow in SWR2 on national and international climate policy, November 2018 (German)
- Interview in Deutschlandfunk on Allianz Climate and Energy Monitor, November 2018 (German)
- Interview in Deutschlandfunk on IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C, October 2018 (German)
- Quoted in report in RFI on our report on city, region and business action for the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, September 2018
- Interview in ABC Australian radio on potential weakening of Australia’s contribution to the Paris Agreement, August 2018
- Quoted in background report on 30 years climate policy in Deutschlandfunk, May 2018 (German)
- Interview in Bayern 2 on impact of tourism on the climate, May 2018 (German); on this topic also in Radio Bremen Zwei, BR Puls, WDR 1LIVE, MDR and detektor.fm
- Interview in WDR on “Klimawandel – Wer tut was, wer nicht?”, May 2018 (German)
- Interview in BBC World Service on agreement of IMO on GHG emission reductions from ships, April 2018
- Interview in Deutschlandfunk on the German greenhouse gas target for 2020, January 2018 (German)
- Radio show in Deutschlandfunk to recap the results of the climate conference COP23 in Bonn, November 2017 (German)
- Radio talkshow in SWR 2 on international and national climate policy, November 2017 (German)
- Interview in Deutschlandfunk on the status of the climate negotiations half way through COP23, November 2017 (German)
- Radio talkshow in WDR5 on what needs to happen at the climate negotiations, November 2017 (German)
- Interview in Deutschlandfunk on possible withdrawal of USA from Paris Agreement, June 2017 (German)
- Interview on Deutschlandfunk on climate policy in China, India and USA, April 2017 (German)
- Interview in DW on impact of Trump’s election on global climate policy, November 2016
- Interview in BR2 on German longterm climate plan, September 2016 (German)
- Interview in WDR5 Leonardo (minute 1:00) on paper in Nature, June 2016 (German)
- Radio interview on investment conditions for low carbon infrastructure, Deutschlandfunk, May 2016 (German)
- Interview in China Radio International on the international climate negotiations in Warsaw 2013
Videos
- Interview with ZDF Heute, December 2020 (German)
- Quoted in ZDF Frontal 21 on climate policy of Germany, May 2020 (German)
- Quoted in Tagesthemen on progress at COP 25 in Madrid, December 2019 (German)
- Quoted in Tagesschau on climate change conference in Bonn, June 2019 (German)
- Interview on ZDF Nano on countries progress with climate policies (at 3:40), June 2019 (German)
- Quoted in WDR aktuelle Stunde (at 0min16) about the climate impacts of tourism, Mai 2018 (German)
- Interview on Phoenix about the Climate Action Tracker during COP 23, November 2017 (German)
- Quoted in Tagesthemen (at 2min50) about how France and Germany are handling coal energy, November 2017 (German)
- Quoted in ZDF heute Sendung (at 11min40) about coal energy use in Germany (German), November 2017
- Quoted in WDR Aktuelle Stunde on impact of tourism on the climate, May 2018 (German)
- Interview on DW news about Trump pulling out the U.S. out of Paris Agreement, June 2017
- TV interview on RTCC at COP 20 Lima in December 2014 on progress