Felix Schenuit
Biographic Data
| ID | 5773708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felix Schenuit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felix |
| FAMILY NAME | Schenuit |
| SIGNATURE | SCHENUIT F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, German Institute for International and Security Affairs |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3695-0588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Five principles for robust carbon dioxide removal policy in the G7
Conditional fungibility: Sequencing permanent removals into emissions trading systems
An earth system governance research agenda for carbon removal
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – the creation, enhancement, and upscaling of carbon sinks – has become a pillar of national and corporate commitments towards Net Zero emissions, as well as pathways towards realizing the Paris Agreement's ambitious temperature targets. In this perspective, we explore CDR as an emerging issue of Earth System Governance (ESG). We draw on the results of a workshop at the 2022 Earth System Governance conference that map…
The formative phase of German carbon dioxide removal policy: Positioning between precaution, pragmatism and innovation
Since net-zero greenhouse gas emissions targets have become a keystone of European and German climate policy, a debate about the need to actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in addition to drastically reducing emissions has emerged. Although still relatively scarce, empirical studies on the emergence of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) on the political agenda have shown that variations in the constellations and positions of policy-relev…
Procure, Bank, Release: Carbon Removal Certificate Reserves to Manage Carbon Prices on the Path to Net-Zero
The European Union cap-and-trade emissions trading system (EU ETS) faces two challenges in the context of the European Green Deal. First, to meet the Paris temperature target, emissions in the energy and industrial sectors must fall to net-zero and then even become net-negative. Second, there is a concern that excessive CO2 price spikes and volatility on this path will jeopardize the political acceptance and support for emissions trading as a cli…
Closing the Implementation Gap: Obstacles in Reaching Net-Zero Pledges in the EU and Germany
The European Union and Germany have recently committed themselves to greenhouse-gas neutrality by 2050 and 2045, respectively. This substantially reduces their gaps in ambition to the Paris climate goals. However, the current climate policy mix is not sufficient to reach these targets: There is a major implementation gap . Based on economic, legal, and political science perspectives , this article identifies key obstacles in legislating stringent…
Exploring Enablers for an Ambitious Coal Phaseout
To reach the mitigation goals of the Paris Agreement, many countries will have to phase out their coal power plants prematurely, i.e., before the end of their normal lifetimes, which will lead quite possibly to significant stranded assets. This could present a major challenge, particularly for many of the rapidly developing countries whose electricity demand is growing and which are currently expanding their coal fleets. Recent research shows tha…
It’s a Performance, Not an Orchestra! Rethinking Soft Coordination in Global Climate Governance
Global climate governance is in transition. As the focus shifts from negotiations to implementation, the quest for ways to effectively coordinate ambitious climate action has become a key concern. While existing studies frame this problem mostly in terms of institutional design (to “facilitate” state ambition) and strategic delegation of authority (to “orchestrate” nonstate action), this article builds on dramaturgical policy analysis to examine …
Staging science: Dramaturgical politics of the IPCC's Special Report on 1.5 °C
The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) first report after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, attracted substantial attention in science, media, and politics. In a climate regime where discursive and symbolic elements are important aspects of climate governance, how the IPCC's products are strategically mobilized and staged provide insights into an important facet of science-p…
EU-Canada’s strategic partnership: Broadening relations and mutual interests
The strengthening of EU-Canada relations in the last years has revealed mutual interests in several policy fields. In times of increasingly tense relations with the US and weakening multilateralism, deepened and broadened bilateral cooperation is of particular importance for both, Canada and the EU. In order to better understand mutual interests and similar challenges, this article explores cooperation in the two different policy fields of foreig…
It’s not enough to be right! The climate crisis, power, and the climate movement
The demands of the climate movement ‐ for rapid and profound change ‐ are based on scientific findings and the political commitments to the Paris Agreement. The activists are, therefore, factually “right”. However, being right is not enough to justify or to accelerate the practical implementation of knowledge and decisions. We explain which social factors are at work, and how the climate movement can benefit if they incorporate these factors into…
A scenario of solar geoengineering governance: Vulnerable states demand, and act
The paper examines a scenario exercise concerning deployment of solar geoengineering by a small group of states that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Two groups of participants were each asked to provide expert decision-making advice to an alliance comprising great powers, and to propose a political response to the deployment initiative. This paper discusses the initial governance proposals and examines differences and exchanges bet…
Markets for Public Attention at the Interface of Climate Science and Policy Making
This paper examines biased incentives for the production and use of climate change research. On this basis, it proposes ways to restructure the science-policy interface to better deal with these biases. Drawing on insights from information economics, we argue that policy-makers and the media have a tendency to pay more attention to extreme results, e.g. because they confirm their ideological position or make a good story. This “adverse selection”…
It’s a Performance, Not an Orchestra! Rethinking Soft Coordination in Global Climate Governance
Global climate governance is in transition. As the focus shifts from negotiations to implementation, the quest for ways to effectively coordinate ambitious climate action has become a key concern. While existing studies frame this problem mostly in terms of institutional design (to “facilitate” state ambition) and strategic delegation of authority (to “orchestrate” nonstate action), this article builds on dramaturgical policy analysis to examine …
Staging science: Dramaturgical politics of the IPCC's Special Report on 1.5 °C
The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) first report after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, attracted substantial attention in science, media, and politics. In a climate regime where discursive and symbolic elements are important aspects of climate governance, how the IPCC's products are strategically mobilized and staged provide insights into an important facet of science-p…
A scenario of solar geoengineering governance: Vulnerable states demand, and act
The paper examines a scenario exercise concerning deployment of solar geoengineering by a small group of states that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Two groups of participants were each asked to provide expert decision-making advice to an alliance comprising great powers, and to propose a political response to the deployment initiative. This paper discusses the initial governance proposals and examines differences and exchanges bet…
Closing the Implementation Gap: Obstacles in Reaching Net-Zero Pledges in the EU and Germany
The European Union and Germany have recently committed themselves to greenhouse-gas neutrality by 2050 and 2045, respectively. This substantially reduces their gaps in ambition to the Paris climate goals. However, the current climate policy mix is not sufficient to reach these targets: There is a major implementation gap . Based on economic, legal, and political science perspectives , this article identifies key obstacles in legislating stringent…
An earth system governance research agenda for carbon removal
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – the creation, enhancement, and upscaling of carbon sinks – has become a pillar of national and corporate commitments towards Net Zero emissions, as well as pathways towards realizing the Paris Agreement's ambitious temperature targets. In this perspective, we explore CDR as an emerging issue of Earth System Governance (ESG). We draw on the results of a workshop at the 2022 Earth System Governance conference that map…
The formative phase of German carbon dioxide removal policy: Positioning between precaution, pragmatism and innovation
Since net-zero greenhouse gas emissions targets have become a keystone of European and German climate policy, a debate about the need to actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in addition to drastically reducing emissions has emerged. Although still relatively scarce, empirical studies on the emergence of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) on the political agenda have shown that variations in the constellations and positions of policy-relev…
Procure, Bank, Release: Carbon Removal Certificate Reserves to Manage Carbon Prices on the Path to Net-Zero
The European Union cap-and-trade emissions trading system (EU ETS) faces two challenges in the context of the European Green Deal. First, to meet the Paris temperature target, emissions in the energy and industrial sectors must fall to net-zero and then even become net-negative. Second, there is a concern that excessive CO2 price spikes and volatility on this path will jeopardize the political acceptance and support for emissions trading as a cli…
Markets for Public Attention at the Interface of Climate Science and Policy Making
This paper examines biased incentives for the production and use of climate change research. On this basis, it proposes ways to restructure the science-policy interface to better deal with these biases. Drawing on insights from information economics, we argue that policy-makers and the media have a tendency to pay more attention to extreme results, e.g. because they confirm their ideological position or make a good story. This “adverse selection”…
EU-Canada’s strategic partnership: Broadening relations and mutual interests
The strengthening of EU-Canada relations in the last years has revealed mutual interests in several policy fields. In times of increasingly tense relations with the US and weakening multilateralism, deepened and broadened bilateral cooperation is of particular importance for both, Canada and the EU. In order to better understand mutual interests and similar challenges, this article explores cooperation in the two different policy fields of foreig…
It’s not enough to be right! The climate crisis, power, and the climate movement
The demands of the climate movement ‐ for rapid and profound change ‐ are based on scientific findings and the political commitments to the Paris Agreement. The activists are, therefore, factually “right”. However, being right is not enough to justify or to accelerate the practical implementation of knowledge and decisions. We explain which social factors are at work, and how the climate movement can benefit if they incorporate these factors into…
A scenario of solar geoengineering governance: Vulnerable states demand, and act
The paper examines a scenario exercise concerning deployment of solar geoengineering by a small group of states that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Two groups of participants were each asked to provide expert decision-making advice to an alliance comprising great powers, and to propose a political response to the deployment initiative. This paper discusses the initial governance proposals and examines differences and exchanges bet…
Procure, Bank, Release: Carbon Removal Certificate Reserves to Manage Carbon Prices on the Path to Net-Zero
The European Union cap-and-trade emissions trading system (EU ETS) faces two challenges in the context of the European Green Deal. First, to meet the Paris temperature target, emissions in the energy and industrial sectors must fall to net-zero and then even become net-negative. Second, there is a concern that excessive CO2 price spikes and volatility on this path will jeopardize the political acceptance and support for emissions trading as a cli…
Closing the Implementation Gap: Obstacles in Reaching Net-Zero Pledges in the EU and Germany
The European Union and Germany have recently committed themselves to greenhouse-gas neutrality by 2050 and 2045, respectively. This substantially reduces their gaps in ambition to the Paris climate goals. However, the current climate policy mix is not sufficient to reach these targets: There is a major implementation gap . Based on economic, legal, and political science perspectives , this article identifies key obstacles in legislating stringent…
Exploring Enablers for an Ambitious Coal Phaseout
To reach the mitigation goals of the Paris Agreement, many countries will have to phase out their coal power plants prematurely, i.e., before the end of their normal lifetimes, which will lead quite possibly to significant stranded assets. This could present a major challenge, particularly for many of the rapidly developing countries whose electricity demand is growing and which are currently expanding their coal fleets. Recent research shows tha…
It’s a Performance, Not an Orchestra! Rethinking Soft Coordination in Global Climate Governance
Global climate governance is in transition. As the focus shifts from negotiations to implementation, the quest for ways to effectively coordinate ambitious climate action has become a key concern. While existing studies frame this problem mostly in terms of institutional design (to “facilitate” state ambition) and strategic delegation of authority (to “orchestrate” nonstate action), this article builds on dramaturgical policy analysis to examine …
Staging science: Dramaturgical politics of the IPCC's Special Report on 1.5 °C
The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) first report after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, attracted substantial attention in science, media, and politics. In a climate regime where discursive and symbolic elements are important aspects of climate governance, how the IPCC's products are strategically mobilized and staged provide insights into an important facet of science-p…
The formative phase of German carbon dioxide removal policy: Positioning between precaution, pragmatism and innovation
Since net-zero greenhouse gas emissions targets have become a keystone of European and German climate policy, a debate about the need to actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in addition to drastically reducing emissions has emerged. Although still relatively scarce, empirical studies on the emergence of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) on the political agenda have shown that variations in the constellations and positions of policy-relev…
Five principles for robust carbon dioxide removal policy in the G7
Conditional fungibility: Sequencing permanent removals into emissions trading systems
An earth system governance research agenda for carbon removal
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – the creation, enhancement, and upscaling of carbon sinks – has become a pillar of national and corporate commitments towards Net Zero emissions, as well as pathways towards realizing the Paris Agreement's ambitious temperature targets. In this perspective, we explore CDR as an emerging issue of Earth System Governance (ESG). We draw on the results of a workshop at the 2022 Earth System Governance conference that map…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Climate change (5 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (5 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (5 works)