News & Events

2024/11/19 – Field Research on the Future of Mobility in Africa

Inga Nienkerke recently met with various stakeholders and collaborators in Ghana and Namibia to explore key factors shaping the future of mobility and renewable energy in Africa. She discussed our preliminary research findings with representatives from science, industry, and politics, as well as with local communities and gained valuable insights into innovative concepts, barriers and enablers of e-mobility.

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Women Academy on retrofitting combustion engine motorbikes to electric motorbikes in Ghana; E-car in Namibia; Test-ride on e-bike designed in Ghana; Off-grid solar installations in Namibia (left to right).

2024/02/22 – CP member Vira Porieva successfully defended her PhD

Vira defended her dissertation, titled "Non-governmental activities in the process of forming and implementing EU environmental policy: experience for Ukraine", on which she worked in the period of 2019-2023. The dissertation was defended online. Specialized academic council of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, which was founded in 1834, awarded Porieva Vira as Doctor of Philosophy in Public Policy and Administration. We congratulate Vira!

2024/01/08 – publication study with CP lab co-author Susanne Hanger-Kopp

How can climate policy be made more just and fair? IIASA researchers have synthesized different dimensions of justice into a framework that can be used by climate scientists and policymakers, explaining how previous research has neglected many potential justice positions and how these can be implemented in policy contexts. external page Read more…

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Synhelion’s solar fuel technology in operation under concentrated solar radiation at the DLR solar tower facility in Jülich, Germany (Photo: Synhelion)

2023/09/27 – New study with co-authors from CP lab

The study shows the economic viability of establishing an energetically self-​sustained, industrial-scale thermochemical redox cycle fuel production system in regions characterized by high direct normal radiation. This innovative system operates around the clock using only air and sunlight, and its feasibility is made possible by resourcefully incorporating thermal energy storage and waste heat recovery at various levels within the plant.

For more information read the ETH outreach news.

2023/08/03 – New doctoral students at the CP lab

Adrien and Kristiina have joined the CP Lab as PhD students this summer. Kristiina will be working on social acceptance of decarbonisation policies in the energy sector within the Speed2Zero project that focusses on policies and technologies which help Switzerland reach net-zero by 2050. Decarbonisation policies include financial instruments, such as taxes or tax exemptions, as well as regulatory or supporting policies, like an obligation to produce a certain proportion of electricity from renewable sources. Kristiina has a background in natural sciences and has previously worked on climate policy in the civil service.

Adrien will be working on assessing sector-coupling and flexibility policies as part of the PATHFNDR project, which aims at developing transition pathways for renewable energy integration in Switzerland. For example, vehicle-to-grid, targeted incentives and electricity tariff schemes may enhance the demand-side flexibility potential of electric vehicles, buildings and industrial sites by shifting their electricity consumption in time. Adrien will focus on the effect of such policies at the macro-system level, with a view to their environmental and economic impacts. He previously studied energy systems science at ETH.

2023/05/05 – CP member Tim Tröndle on German television

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In the programme "Planet Wissen" of the Südwestrundfunk (SWR), Tim commented on the topic external page "Germany and self-sufficiency" (from min 29:42).

2020/04/19 – Jan Wohland is awarded the Köppen Prize

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The Wladimir Köppen Award is awarded by Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climatic Change, and Society" (CLICCS). Awarded for the tenth time in 2019, its purpose is to recognize outstanding dissertations written by young researchers. external page More information

2019/11/24 – Article in The Washington Post

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Christie Aschwanden wrote her story about severe weather alerts with the help of CP member Philippe Weyrich. You can read the story on the external page Washington Post's web site.