Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy (WI)

##For each participant in the proposed project, provide a brief description of the legal entity, the main tasks they have been attributed, and the previous experience relevant to those tasks. Provide also a short profile of the staff members who will be undertaking the work.

(Maximum length for Section 2.2: one page per participant. However, where two or more departments within an organisation have quite distinct roles within the proposal, one page per department is acceptable.

The maximum length applying to a legal entity composed of several members each of which is a separate legal entity, is one page per member, provided that the members have quite distinct roles within the proposal.)##

The Wuppertal Institute was founded in 1989 by the German federal state of North-Rhine Westphalia. It currently employs more than 70 research fellows in four research groups. The Wuppertal Institute works in the fields of applied policy research on climate, environment, energy and transport. Besides broad working experience on the German national level and for international Institutions such as UNEP, UNFCCC, the World Bank and others, the institute has a long record of consultancy and policy advice for the European Commission and the European Parliament as well as for various national authorities.

The WI has an extensive record of work on international climate policy. For instance, the WI coordinated the international “South-North Dialogue – Equity in the Greenhouse” in cooperation with the Energy Research Centre (South Africa) on behalf of the German Technical Cooperation Agency (GTZ). The project gathered 14 researchers from all world regions, most of them from developing countries, to discuss building blocks of a future international framework to combat climate change. In the run-up to Copenhagen, the Wuppertal Institute published a comprehensive proposal for the Copenhagen agreement. Another focus of work is the implementation of market-based policy instruments, namely the EU emissions trading system (EU ETS) and the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean De-velopment Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI), with various projects having been undertaken for the German and Japanese governments and the European Parliament.

The staff members who will work on the project are:
• The project co-ordinator will be Wolfgang Sterk, project coordinator in the Research Group Energy, Transport and Climate Policy. He has seven years of experience in coordinating projects on the future of international climate policy and market-based climate policy instruments (CDM/JI and the EU ETS).