The lecture series of the Enviromental Department of the TU Student Council deals with topics of Climate Action in the summer term 2023. The lectures of the series are held in English.
Ottmar Edenhofer is director and chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). Furthermore, he is professor at the Technical University of Berlin and considered one of the world’s leading experts on the economics of climate change. His memberships include, among others, the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. From 2008 to 2015, Ottmar Edenhofer served as Co-Chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Edenhofer’s scientific expertise is sought by policy and international organizations likewise. He has published articles in a number of peer-reviewed journals and authored a number of books. The fourth year in a row, Ottmar Edenhofer belongs to the 1% of the most cited scientists worldwide in the category “interdisciplinary science” according to the Web of Science citation index.
