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RECAP15 -
Re-thinking the Efficacy of International Climate Agreements Post COP15

Dr. Anna-Katharina Topp

Researcher (01/2012 - 10/2015)
Work Package 3: Co-ordinating Global and National Strategies of Adaptation and Mitigation

Selected Publications

‘Voluntary international climate finance under the post-Kyoto framework: The strategic consequences of different modes of funding’. In: Climate Change Economics 6.1550013 (2015). doi: 10.1142/S201000781550013X. (with Clemens Heuson, Wolfgang Peters, Reimund Schwarze)

‘Investment and Adaptation as Commitment Devices in Climate Politics’. In: Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics 62.4, pp. 769–790 (2015). doi: 10.1007/s10640-015-9887-z. (with Clemens Heuson, Wolfgang Peters, Reimund Schwarze) 

Career

since 02/2018 Research Associate at TMG Research gGmbH. Finance for Up-Scaling Sustainable Land Management and Climate Adaptation

07/2016 - 11/2017 Young Professionals Programme of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Stations in the Department for Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean at BMZ, in the Programme for Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency in Vietnam of the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ) and at the think tank Agora Energiewende

10/2015 Dissertation (Essays on the strategic role of adaptation and mitigation in climate policy)

01/2012 - 10/2015 Researcher at RECAP15 (Work Package 3: Co-ordinating Global and National Strategies of Adaptation and Mitigation) and at the Chair of Public Finance, especially Environmental Economics, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Peters, European-University Viadrina,  Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

07/2011 Master of Science in Economics, University of Regensburg. Master's thesis: 'Behavioral economic approaches to explain cooperativeness in international environmental politics'

08/2008 Bachelor of Arts in German-Spanish Studies (focus: Economics). University of Regensburg, Germany

10/2006 - 06/2007 Semesters abroad (Universidad Complutense Madrid)

10/2010 - 07/2011 Student Assistant. Tutor Microeconomics I and II at the Chair of Public Finance, especially Environmental Economics, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Buchholz, University of Regensburg, Germany