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Overview

Harald Winkler is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa and specializes in research related to environmental science and economics. Their work spans significant themes in climate change policy, sustainability governance, and energy-related environmental impacts.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these fields, their subfields of focus are:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Pollution
  • Sociology and Political Science

Harald Winkler's research topics cover:

  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy

Their recent published papers include:

  • Towards a theory of just transition: A neo-Gramscian understanding of how to shift development pathways to zero poverty and zero carbon (2020), Energy Research & Social Science
  • Emissions: world has four times the work or one-third of the time (2020), Nature
  • Ethical choices behind quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement (2021), Nature Climate Change
  • AR6 Scenarios Database (2022), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Africa needs context-relevant evidence to shape its clean energy future (2022), Nature Energy

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Harald Winkler include:

  • Franck Lecocq
  • Joana Portugal-Pereira
  • Andrew Marquard
  • Joeri Rogelj
  • Roberto Schaeffer

Their research is often published in venues such as:

  • Climate Policy
  • Open University of Cape Town (University of Cape Town)
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Nature Energy
  • Energy Research & Social Science

Best Publications

  • Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C

    Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj;Michel den Elzen;Niklas Höhne;Taryn Fransen

  • IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

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  • A new scenario framework for climate change research: Scenario matrix architecture

    Detlef P. van Vuuren;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Elmar Kriegler;Brian C. O’Neill;Kristie L. Ebi

  • A new scenario framework for climate change research : the concept of shared climate policy assumptions

    Elmar Kriegler;Jae Edmonds;Stephane Hallegatte;Kristie Lee Ebi

  • Access and Affordability of Electricity in Developing Countries

    Harald Winkler;André Felipe Simões;Emilio Lèbre la Rovere;Mozaharul Alam

  • Renewable energy policy in South Africa: policy options for renewable electricity

    Harald Winkler

  • CDM: Taking stock and looking forward

    Jane Ellis;Harald Winkler;Jan Corfee-Morlot;Frédéric Gagnon-Lebrun

  • A new scenario framework for climate change research : background, process, and future directions

    Kristie Lee Ebi;Stephane Hallegatte;Tom Kram;Nigel W. Arnell

  • Emissions: world has four times the work or one-third of the time

    Niklas Höhne;Michel den Elzen;Joeri Rogelj;Bert Metz

  • Sustainable Development and Mitigation

    J. Sathaye;A. Najam;C. Cocklin;T. Heller

  • Energy policies for sustainable development in South Africa

    Harald Winkler

  • Changing development paths: from an energy-intensive to low-carbon economy in South Africa.

    Harald Winkler;Andrew Marquand

  • A pathway design framework for national low greenhouse gas emission development strategies

    Henri Waisman;Chris Bataille;Harald Winkler;Frank Jotzo

  • Building Productive Links between the UNFCCC and the Broader Global Climate Governance Landscape

    Michele Betsill;Navroz K. Dubash;Matthew Paterson;Harro van Asselt

  • Ethical choices behind quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement

    Kate Dooley;Christian Holz;Sivan Kartha;Sonja Klinsky

  • What factors influence mitigative capacity

    Harald Winkler;Kevin Baumert;Odile Blanchard;Sarah Burch

  • Energy Policies for Sustainable Development in South Africa: Options for the Future

    Ogunlade Davidson;Andrew Kenny;Gisela Prasad;Jabavu Nkomo

  • Energy and the World Summit on Sustainable Development: What next?

    Randall Spalding-Fecher;Harald Winkler;Stanford Mwakasonda

  • CBDR&RC in a regime applicable to all

    Harald Winkler;Lavanya Rajamani

  • US and international climate policy under President Trump

    Frank Jotzo;Joanna Depledge;Harald Winkler

  • A new scenario framework for climate change research : scenario matrix architecture

    Keywan Riahi;Tom Kram;Timothy R. Carter;Jae Edmonds

  • A pathway design framework for national low greenhouse gas emission development strategies

    Henri Waisman;Christine Bataille;Harald Winkler;Frank Jotzo

Frequent Co-Authors

Niklas Höhne
Niklas Höhne Wageningen University & Research
Keywan Riahi
Keywan Riahi International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Jayant Sathaye
Jayant Sathaye Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University
Roberto Schaeffer
Roberto Schaeffer Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Mark Howells
Mark Howells Loughborough University
Elmar Kriegler
Elmar Kriegler Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Peter A. Singer
Peter A. Singer National University of Singapore
John P. Robinson
John P. Robinson University of Maryland, College Park

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