
Charlotte Felthöfer
MA (Applied Political Science & International Affairs)
BA (Applied Political Science)
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Charlotte Felthöfer works as a Researcher at the Ecologic Institute in Berlin, focusing primarily on German and European climate policy and socioeconomic issues at the local level. Her work focuses on indicator-based assessments of European climate policy, technical CO₂ removal from the atmosphere, and sustainable urban development. Her native language is German, she is fluent in English and French, and has knowledge of Swedish.
She is involved in the European Climate Neutrality Observatory (ECNO), where she co-authors the chapter on carbon dioxide removals and supports the team in project and data management. She is also part of the "Climate Adaptation Naturally!" project, where she is writing a guide to inclusive public relations work. In the project “Challenges for international climate protection in the context of the global triple crisis,” she is investigating the interactions between environmental crises and their health impacts. In the project "International Cooperation to Restore and Connect Urban Environments in Latin America and Europe (INTERLACE)," she worked on the implementation of Nature-based Solutions in cities. In addition, she evaluated the implementation status of the Natural Climate Protection Action Program (ANK) in 2025.
Before joining Ecologic Institute as a Researcher, Charlotte Felthöfer started as a research assistant at the Institute. Prior to that, she worked at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment on issues related to international energy policy, subnational climate policy and structural change in regions affected by the coal phase-out. She was also an intern at the German Embassy in Paris and served as a consultant for a GIZ project on labour migration.
Charlotte Felthöfer holds a master's degree in Applied Political Science from the University of Freiburg (Germany) and a master's degree in International Affairs from Sciences Po Aix (France). In her Master's thesis, she compared sustainable transport policies in Germany and France in terms of their impact on mobility poverty. Prior to that, she completed her Franco-German bachelor's degree in Applied Political Science from the University of Freiburg. She wrote her bachelor thesis on international urban climate action. During her Master’s degree, Charlotte Felthöfer spent a semester at Uppsala University in Sweden, where she studied sustainable development and climate security.