Dr. Camilla Bausch

Dr. Camilla Bausch

Director Emerita, Ecologic Institute Europe

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Dr. Camilla Bausch acted as the Scientific & Executive Director of Ecologic Institute from 2015 to 2024. Before taking on the leadership role, she had worked as a senior scientist at the institute for a decade. Her main areas of research were climate and energy policy.

A lawyer by training, she is passionate about researching international governance approaches and their development. Cross-border effects of climate protection efforts and the energy transition figure prominently in her work. Camilla Bausch is co-editor of the Carbon & Climate Law Review (CCLR).

During her time as Director of Ecologic Institute, she was invited to serve on various advisory boards, steering committees and juries, e.g., of the following organizations: Climate Protection Council of the State of Berlin (Klimaschutzrat), Scholarship Foundation of the Berlin House of Representatives (Studienstiftung des Berliner Abgeordnetenhauses), Climate Neutrality Foundation, DENEFF (German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency), SDSN Germany, Allianz Foundation and the Kummer Vanotti Stiftung. She still holds some of these positions.

From 2017 to 2023, Camilla Bausch was the Spokeswoman of the Ecological Research Network (Ecornet). She served as a co-chair of the T20 Task Force on Climate, Energy and Environmental Protection under the Indonesian Presidency of the G20. This built on her co-chairing the 2021 environmental T20 Task Force previously, during the Italian G20 Presidency.

She initiated and led the EnergyTransitionArt project (2013-2016). Furthermore, she founded the Climate Talk event series and led it between 2004 and 2014.

From 2009 to 2014, Dr. Bausch was a board member of Greenpeace Germany, holding the position of Chair for three of those years. 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. There, she worked with Congressman Edward J. Markey, who is now Senator for Massachusetts (D-MA).

Prior to working at Ecologic Institute, Camilla Bausch was a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Born in Berlin, she spent a year in the USA, 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). She received a PhD in law from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany). Her doctoral thesis focused on grid access regulations in the liberalized electricity market of the EU.

Camilla Bausch has received fellowships and scholarships from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the Zeit Foundation, and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, among others.

In addition to her stays in the USA, Camilla Bausch has lived abroad for extended periods in Belgium and Russia.

 

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Selected publications by Dr. Camilla Bausch
PublicationArticleDer Klimagipfel von Sharm El-Sheikh: Fortschritt und Stillstand
 
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  The COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh was intended by the Egyptian presidency to be an implementation summit. The key outcome agreed was a financing mechanism with a fund specifically for damage and loss. Apart from that, the substantive outcomes of COP27 were mostly... Read more

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.

PublicationPolicy BriefAccelerating the Global Transformation of Industry at the G7
 
Cover of the Policy Brief - Accelerating the Global Transformation of Industry at the G7

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Transforming and decarbonising industry is essential for reaching climate-neutrality and the goals of the Paris Agreement. A significant part of industrial assets require reinvestment in this decade, while new low-carbon infrastructure needs to be built. All these... Read more

Martini, Leon, Benjamin Görlach, Camilla Bausch 2022: Accelerating the Global Transformation of Industry at the G7. Ecologic Institute, Berlin.

PublicationArticleDer Klimagipfel von Glasgow: Notwendig, aber nicht hinreichend
 
KlimR 1/2022

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Prof. Michael Mehling (Deputy Director, MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR)), and Dr. Camilla Bausch (Director, Ecologic Institute) were invited to contribute to the inaugural issue of the new journal "Klima und Recht" (Climate and Law). In... Read more

Mehling, Michael; Camilla Bausch 2022: Der Klimagipfel von Glasgow: Notwendig, aber nicht hinreichend. In: KlimR, Issue 1 (2022), pp. 22 - 25

PublicationArticleHow the G20 Can Contribute to a Successful Climate Summit in Glasgow
 
Author: Camilla Bausch, Publication: ISPI Dossier - Climate Change: A Global Fight at a Crossroads

ISPI

Just a few weeks before the UN climate summit (COP26), Dr. Camilla Bausch responded to the invitation to contribute to the most recent dossier published by ISPI under the tagline "Climate Change: A Global Fight at a Crossroads". Her timely contribution outlines the... Read more

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

PublicationArticleBridging Divides Over the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
 
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In the context of the European Green Deal, the introduction and design of border adjustment measures is currently subject to much controversy. Upon invitation to contribute to the series "Green Deal reloaded" by the Stiftung Genshagen and the Institut Montaigne, Dr.... Read more

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.

PublicationArticleClimate: Saved by the pandemic?
 
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ISIP

With 2020 drawing to a close, Dr. Camilla Bausch was invited to contribute to "The World in 2021". This publication is an annual end-of-year publication by ISPI, a leading foreign policy think tank in Italy, on trends, crises and 10 key "questions" that are relevant for... Read more

Bausch, Camilla 2020: Climate: Saved by the pandemic? In: Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) 2020: The World in 2021, pages 32-35.

PublicationArticleGermany, Multilateralism and the Climate Crisis
 

PeaceLab

In the wake of Joe Biden's election as 46th President of the United States, Dr. Camilla Bausch contributed a blog post for the Global Public Policy Institute's Peace Lab on how multilateralism could help address the climate crisis. This is a timely contribution as it is... Read more

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….

PublicationArticleNegotiating Climate Change in the UN
 
In their 2007 publication for the first issue of CCLR, Dr. Camilla Bausch, Director of Ecologic Institute, and Michael Mehling, Partner and Board Member of the Institute, took stock of progress with climate negotiations under the United Nations. Now, a decade later,... Read more

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

PublicationBrochureCreative Environment – A guide to art and sustainability initiatives in Berlin
 
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In December 2017 the publication "Creative Environment – a guide to art and sustainability initiatives in Berlin" was published by Ecologic Institute. The guide is the result of Ecologic Institute's inaugural Writer-in-Residence program. Curator Yasmine Ostendorf spent... Read more

Ostendorf, Yasmine 2017: Creative Environment. A guide to art and sustainability initiatives in Berlin. Berlin: Ecologic Institute.

Selected presentations by Dr. Camilla Bausch
PresentationPanel discussionMeeting with EU Commissioner Sinkevičius on Biodiversity and the Nature Restoration Regulation
 

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Building on the momentum created by the negotiations on the Nature Restoration Regulation (NRL) as well as by the overall successful outcome of the biodiversity summit COP15, the think tank network "Think Sustainable Europe" (TSE) met with EU Environment Commissioner... Read more

Panel discussion:Meeting with EU Commissioner Sinkevičius on Biodiversity and the Nature Restoration Regulation

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Brussels, Belgium
PresentationLectureClimate Protection as a Global Policy Challenge: Lectio Magistralis by Camilla Bausch
 

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At the invitation of the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Dr. Camilla Bausch held a "Lectio Magistralis". At this Lectio, leading experts such as Jean-Claude Trichet (Former President of the European Central Bank) and Sergei Guriev ... Read more

Lecture:Climate Protection as a Global Policy Challenge: Lectio Magistralis by Camilla Bausch

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Milano, Italy
PresentationPanel discussionDr. Camilla Bausch Discusses the Climate Crisis in Times Marked by the Global Pandemic at the Think20 Italy Inception Conference
 

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To provide the G20 leaders with scientific advice, Think20 – a group of think tanks and academia from G20 countries – will work over the upcoming months on policy papers and recommendations. At the T20 Inception Conference, thought leaders and policy makers like Paolo... Read more

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
PresentationPanel discussionSolving our Climate Crisis: Dr. Bausch at Senator Bernie Sanders' National Town Hall Meeting in Washington DC
 
Senator Bernie Sanders invited some of the most prominent voices in America to the US Congress to discuss how to handle the increasing threat of climate change. Dr. Camilla Bausch of Ecologic Institute reflected on global trends in the field of energy, climate policy,... Read more

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
PresentationSpeechFrom Knowledge to Action: Global climate protection and local action
 
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How is the Paris Agreement relevant for people active in the building sector? What can and should architects, energy consultants, or installers contribute to achieving the goals of this international climate agreement? Dr. Camilla Bausch of Ecologic Institute tried to... Read more

Speech:From Knowledge to Action: Global climate protection and local action

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Stuttgart, Germany

Recent content by Dr. Camilla Bausch

Presentation:Panel discussion
 
Building on the momentum created by the negotiations on the Nature Restoration Regulation (NRL) as well as by the overall successful outcome of the biodiversity summit COP15, the think tank network "Think Sustainable Europe" (TSE) met with EU Environment Commissioner Sinkevičius. As part of TSE, Ecologic Institute presented key recommendations on the NRL. These build on a series of policy briefs by Ecologic Institute and IEEP respectively, and were well received and aroused great interest both in the EU Commission and the European Parliament.

Meeting with EU Commissioner Sinkevičius on Biodiversity and the Nature Restoration Regulation


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Presentation:Lecture
 
At the invitation of the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Dr. Camilla Bausch held a "Lectio Magistralis". At this Lectio, leading experts such as Jean-Claude Trichet (Former President of the European Central Bank) and Sergei Guriev (Professor of Economics at Sciences Po in Paris) discuss key political and scientific insights with master's students of the ISPI School. Dr. Bausch's lecture focused on dynamics, setbacks and breakthroughs in international climate policy – including an outlook on 2023 and identifying opportunities for the students themselves to take action.

Climate Protection as a Global Policy Challenge: Lectio Magistralis by Camilla Bausch


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Event:Discussion
 
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What is the task of sustainability research and what are its prospects for the coming years? And what are orientation points for the research policy agenda in the context of multiple crises? These are the questions that were discussed with guests from the political arena and civil society on January 24, 2023.

Balancing the Pressure to Act with an Orientation Towards the Future

The task of and perspectives for sustainability research


hybrid, Berlin, Germany

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Event:Dinner Dialogue
 
The EU taxonomy regulation for sustainable finance has received much attention. As a living document, it requires regular reviewing and updating. So what's next in stall for the policy's development? On 16 January 2023, representatives from politics, industry (financial and non-financial), academia and the civil society came together to discuss exactly that. R. Andreas Kraemer moderated the event that featured an initial impulse from Korbinian Reiter (Kanzlei Redeker) and comments from Silke Stremlau (Hannoversche Kassen) and Sabine Pex (BMUV).

What's Next for the EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance?

Discussion on further developments, barriers and opportunities


Berlin, Germany

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Publication:Article
 
print and online cover of the journal "Klima und Recht"
The COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh was intended by the Egyptian presidency to be an implementation summit. The key outcome agreed was a financing mechanism with a fund specifically for damage and loss. Apart from that, the substantive outcomes of COP27 were mostly disappointing. This article by Dr. Ralph Bodle, Arne Riedel and Dr. Camilla Bausch provides an overview of selected outcomes, as well as insights into the process and the assessment by German civil society.

Der Klimagipfel von Sharm El-Sheikh: Fortschritt und Stillstand

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Project
 
In this research and dialogue project on behalf of the Climate Neutrality Foundation, Ecologic Institute analyzes the complex landscape of Germany's bilateral and plurilateral partnerships in the fields of energy, climate and raw materials, with a focus on partnerships with countries of the Global South.

Germany's Partnerships for Energy, Climate, Resources and Development

How to make their work more transformative towards climate neutrality

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Publication:Policy Brief
 
Cover with key messages of the policy brief "Climate Diplomacy in Turbulent Times. Taking stock of major climate developments in 2022"
This briefing by Michael Jakob and colleagues' reviews some of the major developments in global climate politics in the past year and looks ahead to 2023.

Climate Diplomacy in Turbulent Times

Taking stock of major climate developments in 2022

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Event:Conference
 
The German Environment Agency (UBA) is pleased to announce the 6th European Resources Forum – "Transformative approaches for sustainable resource use and a circular economy."

European Resources Forum 2022online


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News
 
Key message "The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research should readjust its strategy for the future"
Leading institutes from the fields of sustainability and futures studies welcome the development of a "Future Strategy for Research and Innovation" by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. At the same time, they point out that, while the presented draft provides significant momentum, it does not yet fully consider the societal challenges and the urgency to act.
 

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research Should Readjust its Strategy for the Future

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