Johannes Emmerling is a scientist at EIEE and co-leads its integrated assessment modelling unit. He was a Senior Researcher at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) between 2012 and 2018. Johannes holds a Ph.D. from the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), a M.A. in Economics from the Free University Berlin and a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Heidelberg. He was a postgraduate fellow in Development Cooperation at the German Development Institute, Bonn. He has been working amongst others at the Social Science Research Center (WZB) Berlin, the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), as Lecturer at Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, and as Consultant for the Organization of American States (OAS), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the German Institute of Metrology (PTB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the World Bank. He is co-leading the development of the integrated assessment model WITCH. His main areas of research include Climate Change and Energy economics, Risk and Uncertainty, Welfare Economics and Development. He has co-authored over 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and is an Associate Editor of the Public Finance Review. He is a passionate cyclist and plays keyboards in various formations.
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
- Comparing energy system optimization models and integrated assessment models: Relevance for energy policy advice
- Reducing the cost of capital to finance the energy transition in developing countries
- Comparing net zero pathways across the Atlantic A model inter-comparison exercise between the Energy Modeling Forum 37 and the European Climate and Energy Modeling Forum
- Climate change impacts on the within-country income distributions
- International shipping in a world below 2 °C
- Multidimensional welfare indices and the IPCC 6th Assessment Report scenarios
- Inequality repercussions of financing negative emissions
- Equity implications of net-zero emissions: A multi-model analysis of energy expenditures across income classes under economy-wide deep decarbonization policies
- Financing negative emissions leads to windfall profits and inequality at net zero
- Global inequality consequences of climate policies when accounting for avoided climate impacts