
Dr. Camilla Bausch
Scientific & Executive Director, Ecologic Institute Europe
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Dr. Camilla Bausch is Scientific & Executive Director of Ecologic Institute.
Her main fields of research are environmental, climate and energy policy. Dr. Bausch was a long-standing part of the German Delegation to the UN climate negotiations. She has been active in the introduction and reform of the emissions trading system in Germany, as well as ongoing developments of energy law. The implementation and effects of the German energy transition on neighboring European countries is an important aspect of her work, as well as the ongoing development of European climate and energy policy.
Dr. Camilla Bausch serves as co-chair of the T20 Task Force on Climate, Energy and Environmental Protection under the Indonesian Presidency of the G20. This builds on her co-chairing the 2021 environmental T20 Task Force already during the Italian G20 Presidency.
She is a sought after speaker and member of several advisory boards and juries, including the Berlin Advisory Body for Climate Protection (Klimaschutzrat). She is spokesperson of the Ecological Research Network (Ecornet). She is co-editor of the Carbon & Climate Law Review (CCLR).
From 2009 to 2014 Dr. Bausch was a board member of Greenpeace Germany, holding the position of Chair for three of those years. She co-founded the Climate Talk event series in 2004 and was personally responsible for the initiative for a decade. Dr. Bausch is also the initiator and head of the EnergyTransitionArt project.
In 2008/2009 Dr. Bausch took a sabbatical supported by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and the American Political Science Association (APSA) to work for the United States House of Representatives where she was employed by Congressman Edward J. Markey, who is now Senator for Massachusetts (D-MA). Prior to working at Ecologic Institute, Dr. Bausch was a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
Dr. Bausch was born in Berlin and spent one year in the USA at the fall of the Berlin Wall, attaining an American high school diploma. After receiving her Abitur in Baden-Württemberg (Germany), she studied law with a focus on European and environmental law at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) and the University of Cologne (Germany), while also working for the university. She received a PhD in law from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany). For her doctoral dissertation she researched the legal framework grid access regulations in the liberalized electricity market of the European Union (EU).
Dr. Bausch has received research fellowships and scholarships from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the 21st Century Trust Oxford, the Wilton Park British German Forum, the Zeit Foundation, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Aspen Institute, among others.
Along with her stay in the USA, Dr. Bausch has lived abroad for extended periods in Belgium and Russia. She is a member of the Tönissteiner Group.
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Selected publications by Dr. Camilla Bausch
Bodle, Ralph; Arne Riedel and Camilla Bausch 2023: Der Klimagipfel von Sharm El-Sheikh: Fortschritt und Stillstand. In: KlimR, Issue 1 (2023), pp. 2 - 6.
Martini, Leon, Benjamin Görlach, Camilla Bausch 2022: Accelerating the Global Transformation of Industry at the G7. Ecologic Institute, Berlin.
Mehling, Michael; Camilla Bausch 2022: Der Klimagipfel von Glasgow: Notwendig, aber nicht hinreichend. In: KlimR, Issue 1 (2022), pp. 22 - 25
Bausch, Camilla 2021: How the G20 can contribute to a successful climate summit in Glasgow In: Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) 2021: Climate Change: A Global Fight at a Crossroads
Bausch, Camilla 2021: Bridging Divides Over the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. Green Deal reloaded – Perspektiven für eine nachhaltige und gerechte Transformation der EU N° 6, 14 April 2021. Stiftung Genshagen, Institut Montaigne.
Bausch, Camilla 2020: Climate: Saved by the pandemic? In: Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) 2020: The World in 2021, pages 32-35.
Bausch, Camilla 2020: Deutschland, der Multilateralismus und die Klimakrise: Wie Kooperationen die Klimapolitik stärken können. 8 December 2020. Online: https://peacelab.blog/2020/12/deutschland-der-multilateralismus-und-die-klimakrise-wie-kooperationen-die-klimapolitik-staerken-koennen.
Bausch, C. , & Mehling, M. Anniversary Special: The Inaugural Issue a Decade Later ∙ Negotiating Climate Change in the UN: Carbon & Climate Law Review Volume 11, Issue 3 (2017) pp. 179 - 183
Ostendorf, Yasmine 2017: Creative Environment. A guide to art and sustainability initiatives in Berlin. Berlin: Ecologic Institute.
Selected events by Dr. Camilla Bausch
Digital Event:From Knowledge to Action
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Discussion:Berlin Launch of the 2020 Go To Think Tank Ranking Index
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Conference:Harnessing the European Green Deal to Address the Climate Crisis – Think2030 Conference
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Conference:Business Mitigates Climate Change – Final Event of the Dialogue Forum
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- Berlin, Germany
Selected presentations by Dr. Camilla Bausch
Panel discussion:Climate and Growth: The Road to a Green Recovery
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- Milano, Italy
Panel discussion:Dr. Camilla Bausch Discusses the Climate Crisis in Times Marked by the Global Pandemic at the Think20 Italy Inception Conference
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- online, Italy
Panel discussion:Towards an Ambitious Environmental Policy in Germany and Europe
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- Berlin, Germany
Panel discussion:Solving our Climate Crisis: Dr. Bausch at Senator Bernie Sanders' National Town Hall Meeting in Washington DC
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- Washington, DC, United States
Speech:From Knowledge to Action: Global climate protection and local action
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- Stuttgart, Germany