The future is renewable
The energy supply of the future and climate protection are tasks in which politics can set a decisive course. There are plenty of interesting ideas: promoting renewable energies or financial support for energy-efficient renovations, a €9 Germany-wide train ticket, or a rising CO2 price combined with the introduction of a socially graded climate allowance.
New energies – for Germany and the world
At the interface between science and politics, I am involved in various sustainability advisory boards and commissions at both the international and national levels. I work as a consultant and expert, developing practical approaches to climate protection and sustainable energy supply.
I regularly advise various ministers, ministries, and parties at the federal and state levels. At the international level, for example, EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso called on me and other leading researchers in 2006 to develop strategies for a unified energy and climate protection policy for the EU within the framework of the High Level Group on Energy. In 2016, I was appointed to the German Advisory Council on the Environment, and in 2021 to the Hamburg Climate Advisory Council. In 2012, Norbert Röttgen (CDU) appointed me to his shadow cabinet as Minister of Energy in North Rhine-Westphalia, and in 2013 Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel (SPD) appointed me as Energy Commissioner in Hesse. Previously, I was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the EU Environment Commissioner and of the state governments of Lower Saxony and Hesse for the development of energy strategies.