
Ricarda Faber
BA (Political Science)
Research Assistant
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Ricarda Faber works at Ecologic Institute as a Research Assistant. Her research focuses primarily on European energy and climate policy, in particular on the decarbonization of our energy systems. She works in German and English.
For Ecologic Institute, Ricarda Faber is working on several projects covering topics such as new regulatory frameworks for sustainable energy supply, renewable energies, energy efficiency, e.g. in the building sector, and the evaluation of national and European policies. In the research project StromNachbarn, which is part of the research network Ecornet Berlin, she analyzed the socio-ecological effects of tenant electricity systems in Berlin by means of a tenant survey. In addition, Ricarda Faber conducted an institutional and actor analysis in the field of transport and energy in the project WenaMoNi. Thereby, she examined opportunities and obstacles for sustainable mobility in Lower Saxony. A special focus was on sector coupling and hydrogen.
Before joining Ecologic Institute Berlin, Ricarda Faber gained experience as a project assistant at adelphi Consult in the fields of sustainable consumption and international climate policy. There, she supported the implementation of national policies and the design of a database to record UN SDG 12 and Agenda 2030 activities. In addition, Ricarda Faber analyzed case studies of national climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies as part of the global database initiative "Partnership for Transparency in the Paris Agreement (PATPA)" of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU).
Next to her work for Ecologic Institute, Ricarda Faber is a master's degree student of Public Policy with a focus on energy and climate at the University of Potsdam (Germany). She is currently writing her Master's thesis on the politics of green financial policy under the Climate Finance and Policy and Energy and Technology Policy groups at the Swiss Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich. She completed her bachelor's degree in Political Science, which she centred on environment, climate and regional studies, at the Free University of Berlin in 2019. As a scholarship holder of the University Alliance for Sustainability (UAS), Ricarda Faber researched the topic of "Societal Transformation to Sustainability" in Beijing (China) during a student exchange with Peking University.
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Selected projects by Ricarda Faber
ElectricityNeighbours – Can tenants in Berlin's apartment buildings become prosumers through solar power projects and sector coupling?
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Governing Mayor of Berlin, Senate Chancellery , Germany
Energy Prosumption in Europe
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European Environment Agency (EEA), International
Leapfrogging to a Resilient Europe
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Laudes Foundation, International Partners for a New Economy (P4NE), Switzerland
Buildings in Recovery Plans
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European Climate Foundation (ECF), Netherlands
Selected publications by Ricarda Faber
Umpfenbach, K., Faber, R. (2021). StromNachbarn: Evaluation der sozialen und ökologischen Wirkungen von Mieterstromanlagen in Berlin, Berlin: Ecornet Berlin.
Velten, Eike Karola and Ricarda Faber 2020: Why the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility must prioritise investments in building renovation. A short think piece. Berlin: Ecologic Institute.
Selected events by Ricarda Faber
Digital Event:What Role do Tenants Play in the Energy Transition in Berlin?
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Conference:Leapfrogging to a Resilient Europe
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