On March 21 and 22, Dr. Christian Hagemann, Prof. Miranda Schreurs, and Prof. Stefan Wurster organized an international MA and PhD colloquium on Environment, Climate and Energy Politics. Over the course of the two days, approximately 30 MA and PhD students from the Hochschule für Politik München an der TUM, the Univ. Trier, the Freie Universität Berlin, Tel Aviv University’s School of Public Policy, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology participated in the two-day meeting. Prof. Wurster and Dr. Hagemann presented thoughts on triangulation in research, Tel Aviv University’s Gil Barnea presented on the use of the synthetic control method, and the PhD students presented their dissertation projects. The dissertation projects cover subjects such as oil pollution clean-up in Azerbaijan, the development of an ecological developmental state in China, transportation politics in Germany’s federal system, policy change and the German Feed-in-Tariff, policy inefficiencies in eco design standards, low carbon pilot projects in China, pilot emissions trading systems in China.