
Dr. Heidi Stockhaus
Ass. iur.
Coordinator International Development
Senior Fellow
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Dr. Heidi Stockhaus works as a Senior Fellow for the Ecologic Institute's Legal Team and as a Coordinator for International Development. Her main areas of expertise are German, European and international environmental law. Heidi Stockhaus has experience in the implementation of international environmental treaties in developing countries. Heidi Stockhaus works in German and English and has basic knowledge of French and Vietnamese.
At Ecologic Legal, Heidi Stockhaus works on various projects for German and European funders. In the field of international environmental law, she has worked on projects concerning international governance of mineral extraction, international soil governance and transboundary environmental impact assessment. Since 2021, she is the German Member of the Implementation Committee under the Espoo Convention on Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment.
At the European level, the projects of Heidi Stockhaus primarily deal with the implementation of EU environmental law in the Member States and mechanisms to assure compliance. She also works on legal projects in Vietnam, most recently on climate change legislation and air quality management. Other projects of Heidi Stockhaus include projects on national soil protection law, on the enforcement of environmental criminal law in the federal states, on the implementation of the Water Framework Directive and on the Federal Climate Protection Act.
Before joining Ecologic Institute Heidi Stockhaus had already worked in Southeast Asia. As an integrated expert for the Vietnamese Ministry of Environment she supported the Legal Department with the implementation of international environmental treaties and in ongoing legislative processes. From 2009 to 2012 she also worked for the German Advisory Council on the Environment as researcher. During this time she contributed to the reports on precautionary strategies for nanomaterials and on the responsibility in a finite world.
Heidi Stockhaus studied law in Bonn (Germany) and Brighton (United Kingdom) with a focus public economics law and German, European and international environmental law. She then obtained a doctorate from Freie Universität Berlin with a thesis on the Regulatory Approach of the European Chemicals Legislation. During her legal traineeship she worked for the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the Legal Assistance Centre in Namibia.
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Selected projects by Dr. Heidi Stockhaus
International Environmental Law
International Governance for Environmentally Sound Supply of Raw Materials (InGoRo)
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Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Germany
Further Development of the International Soil Protection Law
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Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Germany
Vietnam and Asia
A Global Treaty on Plastic Pollution – Perspectives from Asia
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World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Germany
Air Quality Planning and Control of Industrial Emissions in Vietnam
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany
Climate Change Legislation in Vietnam
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany
Air Quality Management in Vietnam
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany
Enforcement of Environmental Law
Implementation of the European Union's Action Plan on Environmental Compliance Assurance and Governance
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European Commission, Directorate-General Environment (DG Environment), International
Development of an Assessment Framework on Environmental Governance in EU Member States
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European Commission, Directorate-General Environment (DG Environment), International
Selected publications by Dr. Heidi Stockhaus
Bodle, Ralph et. al. (2020): International Governance for Environmentally Sound Supply of Raw Materials – Policy Options and Recommendations. Dessau-Roßlau: Umweltbundesamt.
Bodle, Ralph et. al. (2020): Improving international soil governance – Analysis and recommendations. Dessau-Roßlau: Umweltbundesamt.
Bodle, Ralph and Heidi Stockhaus 2019: Geeignete Rechtsinstrumente für die nationale Umsetzung der bodenbezogenen sustainable development goals, insbesondere des Ziels einer "land degradation neutral world". Abschlussbericht. Umweltbundesamt: Dessau-Roßlau.
Gerstetter, Christiane et. al. 2019: Status quo und Weiterentwicklung des Umweltstrafrechts und anderer Sanktionen: Instrumente zur Verbesserung der Befolgung von Umweltrecht (Compliance). Umweltbundesamt: Dessau-Roßlau.
Duwe, Matthias und Heidi Stockhaus 2019: Klimaschutzgesetze in Europa. Überblick und Bedeutung für ein deutsches Klimaschutzgesetz. Kurzstudie des Ecologic Institut im Auftrag des WWF Deutschland.
Sina, Stephan and Heidi Stockhaus 2019: Landesklimaschutzgesetze in Deutschland. Überblick und Bedeutung für ein Klimaschutzgesetz des Bundes. Study by Ecologic Institute on behalf of WWF Germany.
European Commission (ed.) 2019: FAQ note on the links between the Nature Directives and the Nitrates Directive.
Selected events by Dr. Heidi Stockhaus
Conference:Raw Materials & Environment 2019 – International Conference
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- Berlin, Germany
Visitors Program:Air Quality Management in Germany
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