Mr. Alexander Ochs

Alexander Ochs is an expert on international climate and energy policy. He was a DAAD Fellow and currently is a Senior Non-resident Fellow at AICGS. Between December 2001 and September 2007, he worked as a senior research associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin where he advised the German Government, members of the Bundestag, and other key decision-makers. He has also co-founded and at different times managed, advised, and directed the International Network to Advance Climate Talks (INTACT). Alexander has co-edited two books and published numerous scholarly articles and policy papers. He has also contributed widely to public media, currently as a weekly commentator for Deutsche Welle, Germany's public international broadcaster. Alexander has held research or teaching positions at Princeton University, Munich University, Baruch College (CUNY), as well as both Freie and Humboldt Universities in Berlin. He has been a member of the German delegation to the UN climate negotiations and various advisory committees on both sides of the Atlantic. In the beginning of 2008, Alexander founded FACET - Forum for Atlantic Climate and Energy Talks, an independent initiative supported by the AICGS Business and Economics Program. He was a 2005-06 Young Leader of the Aspen Institute, has received various prestigious scholarships and research grants, and currently serves as a an elected member of tt30, a think tank of the Club of Rome.

 
Selected Publications and Presentations

Overcoming the Lethargy: Climate Change, Energy Security, and the Case for a Third Industrial Revolution. AICGS Policy Report 34.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? Europe, the United States, and China at the World Climate Conference. DAAD/AICGS Web Essay, January 2008.

The Third Industrial Revolution: Energy Security, Transatlantic Relations, and the Economic Case for Climate Protection. DAAD/AICGS lecture, AICGS, December 3, 2007.

Linking Emissions Trading Markets: Obstacles and Opportunities. Advisory Report (forthcoming 2008).

The Climate Policies of Major Developing Economies. Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Washington, DC (forthcoming 2008).

Global Climate - Changing South: The Global Warming Policies of Emerging Powers. BMW Green Europe Series Lecture. Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, November 14, 2007.

The Third Industrial Revolution: Making the Economic Case for Climate Protection. AICGS Policy Report (forthcoming 2008).

European Climate Diplomacy: The Challenges and Opportunities Ahead (forthcoming journal article, currently under review - draft version). (PDF)

Auf der Suche nach neuen Verbündeten: Führungsmächte des Südens als Partner deutscher Klimapolitik [Searching for New Allies: Leading Powers of the South as German Climate Policy Partners]. In: SWP, Führungsmächte des Südens als Partner deutscher Außenpolitik, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2007. Pre-publication discussion-paper version (PDF).

Europa Riding the Hegemon? Transatlantic Climate Policy Relations, with Detlef Sprinz. In: Davis B. Bobrow & William Keller, Hegemony Constrained: Evasion, Modification, and Resistance to American Foreign Policy, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming in 2007; 2006 draft version.

Environmental Leadership and Transatlantic Relations. The Cases of GMOs, Export Credit Agencies and Climate Change, with Marcus Schaper. In: OJEPS, forthcoming in OJEPS, 2007.

The Failures of American and European Climate Policy: International Norms, Domestic Politics, and Unachievable Commitments (book review). Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 7, No. 4, November 2007, pp. 149-151.

Nach Nairobi: Wie weiter in der internationalen Klimapolitik? [After Nairobi: How to proceed in international climate policy?], SWP: January 2007.

Konflikt statt Kooperation? Die transatlantischen Umweltbeziehungen [Conflict instead of Cooperation? Transatlantic Relations on the Environment], with Marcus Schaper. In: Thomas Jäger & Alexander Höse & Kai Oppermann, Transatlantische Beziehungen, Wiesbaden 2005: p. 235-52. (PDF)

G8-Gipfel: Neue Chance gegen globale Erwärmung [The G8 Summit: A New Chance in the Fight against Global Warming]. In: Die Zeit, 27/2005.

Wanted: Leadership. In: Alex Riechel/Aldo Venturelli, Building a Foundation for Transatlantic Climate Policy, Loveno 2005, p. 51-62. (PDF)

From Mars and Venus Down to Earth. Understanding the Transatlantic Climate Divide, with Joshua Busby, In: David Michel, Climate Policy for the 21st Century, Washington, D.C. 2005: p. 35-76.

The Future of Climate Policy: Insights from the UN Conference in Montreal. Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. January 17, 2005. (PDF)

Towards a Transatlantic Consensus on Climate Change, with Aldo Venturelli (eds.). Loveno di Menaggio 2004.

Global Governance and Transatlantic Relations. In: René Gradwohl & Christoph Pohlmann, Renaissance of Transatlantic Relations - Perspectives of a New Partnership, Berlin 2004: p. 13-21.

Reviving Transatlantic Cooperation Towards a Global Threat. Berlin, SWP: January 2004.

Herausforderung Klimaschutz [The Challenge of Climate Protection]. In: punkt.um 4/2003.

Sustainable Climate Protection Policies, with Friedemann Müller (eds.). Ebenhausen 2000.

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