NEWS

Despite the many warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that greenhouse gas emissions must be cut dramatically within this decade to stay within the 1.5C target set by the Paris Agreement, global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. The global community is still far off track from meeting the Paris climate goal and… [read more]

From September 10–14, 2025, the Energy and Sustainability Transition Conference took place at the TUM Academy Center in Raitenhaslach. Initiated by Prof. Miranda Schreurs (TUM), Prof. Amela Ajanovic, and Prof. Reinhard Haas (TU Vienna), the conference brought together international researchers and early-career scholars to discuss key questions of… [read more]

Florentine spent September as a guest researcher at the University of British Columbia's Political Science Department, hosted by Kathryn Harrison. She presented her paper "Why do countries initiate and join normative climate clubs?" at the Political Science Department’s COMP-CAN Colloquium and at the 2025 APSA conference in Vancouver. [read more]

Dr. Florentine Koppenborg organized and chaired the panel ‘Climate Clubs: A New Tool for Effective Climate Governance’ at the 2025 ECPR conference in Thessaloniki. Recent years witnessed a proliferation of club-like arrangements in climate governance, such as the Global Methane Pledge and the Climate Club. Normative climate clubs, including the two… [read more]

Florentine Koppenborg has been appointed as a member of the Advisory Board (“Kuratorium”) of the Foundation Energy and Climate Protection (“Stiftung Energie & Klimaschutz”). After joining the selection committee for the “Energy Campus,” an annual award for the best PhD research project related to the energy transition, she was appointed to the… [read more]