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Gunnar Luderer is affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on how climate change can be addressed through policy, economics, and technological innovation. Their work encompasses a broad spectrum within environmental science and economics, covering subfields such as economics and econometrics, renewable energy, sustainability, environmental engineering, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these broad fields, Luderer's research touches on specific topics including climate change policy and economics, environmental impact and sustainability, energy, environment, and transportation policies, integrated energy systems optimization, energy and environment impacts, global energy and sustainability research, and electric vehicles and infrastructure.

  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure

Gunnar Luderer has published extensively, frequently contributing to several scientific journals and platforms. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Nature Energy
  • Nature Communications

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Impact of declining renewable energy costs on electrification in low-emission scenarios", 2021, Nature Energy
  • "Potential and risks of hydrogen-based e-fuels in climate change mitigation", 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • "A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda", 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • "The shared socio-economic pathway (SSP) greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions to 2500", 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • "Taking stock of national climate policies to evaluate implementation of the Paris Agreement", 2020, Nature Communications

Luderer's frequent co-authors include:

  • Robert Pietzcker
  • Elmar Kriegler
  • Nico Bauer
  • Falko Ueckerdt
  • Florian Humpenöder

Best Publications

  • The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview

    Keywan Riahi;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Elmar Kriegler;Jae Edmonds

  • The shared socio-economic pathway (SSP) greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions to 2500

    Malte Meinshausen;Malte Meinshausen;Zebedee R. J. Nicholls;Jared Lewis;Matthew J. Gidden

  • Negative emissions-Part 2 : Costs, potentials and side effects

    Sabine Fuss;William F Lamb;Max W Callaghan;Jérôme Hilaire

  • Scenarios towards limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5 °C

    Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj;Alexander Popp;Katherine V. Calvin;Gunnar Luderer

  • Energy system transformations for limiting end-of-century warming to below 1.5 °C

    Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj;Gunnar Luderer;Robert C. Pietzcker;Elmar Kriegler

  • Global emissions pathways under different socioeconomic scenarios for use in CMIP6: a dataset of harmonized emissions trajectories through the end of the century

    Matthew J. Gidden;Keywan Riahi;Steven J. Smith;Shinichiro Fujimori;Shinichiro Fujimori

  • The underestimated potential of solar energy to mitigate climate change

    Felix Creutzig;Peter Agoston;Jan Christoph Goldschmidt;Gunnar Luderer

  • Persistent growth of CO2 emissions and implications for reaching climate targets

    P. Friedlingstein;Robbie M Andrew;J. Rogelj;J. Rogelj;G.P. Peters

  • Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis

    Jan C Minx;William F Lamb;Max W Callaghan;Sabine Fuss

  • Fossil-fueled development (SSP5): An energy and resource intensive scenario for the 21st century

    Elmar Kriegler;Nico Bauer;Alexander Popp;Florian Humpenöder

  • Understanding future emissions from low-carbon power systems by integration of life-cycle assessment and integrated energy modelling

    Michaja Pehl;Anders Arvesen;Florian Humpenöder;Alexander Popp

  • Residual fossil CO2 emissions in 1.5–2 °C pathways

    Gunnar Luderer;Zoi Vrontisi;Christoph Bertram;Oreane Y. Edelenbosch;Oreane Y. Edelenbosch

  • The role of technology for achieving climate policy objectives: overview of the EMF 27 study on global technology and climate policy strategies.

    Elmar Kriegler;John Weyant;Geoffrey J. Blanford;Volker Krey

  • Future air pollution in the Shared Socio-economic Pathways

    Shilpa Rao;Shilpa Rao;Zbigniew Klimont;Steven J. Smith;Steven J. Smith;Rita Van Dingenen

  • Impact of declining renewable energy costs on electrification in low-emission scenarios

    Gunnar Luderer;Gunnar Luderer;Silvia Madeddu;Leon Merfort;Falko Ueckerdt

  • Probabilistic feasibility space of scaling up green hydrogen supply

    Unknown

  • A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda

    Bjoern Soergel;Elmar Kriegler;Elmar Kriegler;Isabelle Weindl;Sebastian Rauner

  • Taking stock of national climate policies to evaluate implementation of the Paris Agreement

    Mark Roelfsema;Heleen L. van Soest;Heleen L. van Soest;Mathijs Harmsen;Mathijs Harmsen;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Detlef P. van Vuuren

  • Locked into Copenhagen pledges — Implications of short-term emission targets for the cost and feasibility of long-term climate goals

    Keywan Riahi;Keywan Riahi;Elmar Kriegler;Nils Johnson;Christoph Bertram

  • Environmental co-benefits and adverse side-effects of alternative power sector decarbonization strategies

    Gunnar Luderer;Michaja Pehl;Anders Arvesen;Thomas Gibon

  • Global fossil energy markets and climate change mitigation – an analysis with REMIND

    Nico Bauer;Ioanna Mouratiadou;Gunnar Luderer;Lavinia Baumstark

  • Analyzing major challenges of wind and solar variability in power systems

    Falko Ueckerdt;Robert Brecha;Robert Brecha;Gunnar Luderer

Frequent Co-Authors

Elmar Kriegler
Elmar Kriegler Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Ottmar Edenhofer
Ottmar Edenhofer Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University
Keywan Riahi
Keywan Riahi International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Nico Bauer
Nico Bauer Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Massimo Tavoni
Massimo Tavoni Polytechnic University of Milan
Volker Krey
Volker Krey International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Joeri Rogelj
Joeri Rogelj Imperial College London
Shinichiro Fujimori
Shinichiro Fujimori Kyoto University
Alexander Popp
Alexander Popp Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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