Energy & Climate

Dr. Vanessa Cook

Specialist Translator

Special Expertise

Specialist translation of environmental science and policy research with a particular focus on national and international energy and climate policy
Editing of studies, final reports, position papers and presentations
Translation of internal guidelines and website content
English training for colleagues

Key Projects

Extension of the EU ETS to maritime transport (2023)
Alignment of the EU ETS 1 with the new EU climate target for 2030 and reform of the Market Stability Reserve (2023)
Klimaschutzinstrumente-Szenario 2030 zur Erreichung der Klimaschutzziele 2030 (2023)
The Revision of the European Union Emissions Trading System Directive (2022)
Raising the Climate Policy Ambition of the European Union (2021)
CO2-Bepreisung und die Reform der Steuern und Umlagen auf Strom: Die Umfinanzierung der Umlage des Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetzes (2021)
Die Wasserstoffstrategie 2.0 für Deutschland (2021)
Pricing carbon: An important instrument of ambitious climate policy (2020)
Dem Ziel verpflichtet II. CO2-Mindestpreise für die Umsetzung des Kohleausstiegs (2019)
Germany’s Electric Future II. Regionalization of renewable power generation (2019)
Die deutsche Kohle-Verstromung bis 2030 (2019)
Strompreis- und Stromkosteneffekte eines geordneten Ausstiegs aus der Kohleverstromung (2019)
The Vision Scenario for the European Union. 2017 Update for the EU-28 (2018)
Dezentralität, Regionalisierung und Stromnetze Meta-Studie über Annahmen, Erkenntnisse und Narrative (2018)
Germany’s Electric Future. Coal Phase-out 2035 (2017)
Renewables versus fossil fuels – comparing the costs of electricity systems (2017)

Professional Training

PhD, University College London
M. St. (Hons), University of Oxford
M. A. (Hons), University of Cambridge

Language Skills

English (first language), German, Spanish

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Dr. Dr. Vanessa Cook

Energy & Climate
Specialist Translator
Berlin
Oeko-Institut Consult GmbH
+49 30 405085-379
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Energy transition and climate policy

GHG projections: Further development of the methods and implementation of the European Governance Regulation and the German Federal Climate Change Act ("Policy Scenarios XII")

08/05/2024

In international, European and national climate protection policy, it is necessary to quantify the future development of greenhouse gas emissions and the effects of existing and possible medium-term measures and instruments at regular intervals and to summarise them in consistent projections. In ad
Energy & Climate

Preparation of the EU first Biennial Transparency Report under the Paris Agreement and the UNFCCC

01/30/2024

The project team supports the European Commission in the preparation of the first Biennial Transparency Report of the European Union, which is to be submitted under the Paris Agreement. The report summarises the European Union’s current and projected greenhouse gas emissions, its mitigation polic
Energy & Climate

Securing the Underground - Managing the Risks of Carbon Storage through Effective Policy Design

12/01/2023

This study examines the environmental and technological risks of geological storage of carbon dioxide, focusing on offshore sites. Reducing emissions remains the top priority to address the climate crisis, but carbon storage is increasingly seen as necessary to offset remaining greenhouse gas emi
Carbon pricing

Information and data gathering in five Member States to support a JRC study on the effects of the EU Emissions Trading System for the buildings sector

12/01/2023

The objective of this study is to collect information and data on the expected impact of the ETS-2 in five selected Member States, as well as on relevant instruments in the buildings sector that could be used to address potentially negative impacts and may be available for funding through the SCF
Hydrogen and e-fuels

Sustainability dimensions of hydrogen production in countries of the Global South: Insights into the current debate and approaches to implementation

10/01/2023

The number of PTX projects, energy partnerships and hydrogen task forces is growing fast - and with it the number of studies and actors in the political debate on sustainability criteria for PTX products. The call: hydrogen should not only be climate-neutral, i.e. emission-free, but also sustainabl
Carbon pricing

Ariadne 2: Evidence-based assessment for the design of the German energy transition on the way to climate neutrality - Subproject: F0-2

09/01/2023

In this funding phase, Ariadne continues to show ways through the complex detailed issues of the energy transition: Ariadne researches energy transition strategies and their systemic effects as well as sectoral interactions. Ariadne explores policy instruments to achieve climate goals in an effic

EU 2040 Climate Target: Contributions of the Energy Supply Sector

November 2024

The European Union (EU) is legally obliged to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 and has an interim target for 2030 of reducing net Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by 55% compared to 1990. The European Climate Law also requires the EU to adopt a climate target for 2040. In its Communication of 6 F

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Managing the Risks of Carbon Storage through Effective Policy Design

Securing the Underground

September 2024

This study examines the environmental and technological risks of geological storage of carbon dioxide, focusing on offshore sites. Reducing emissions remains the top priority to address the climate crisis, but carbon storage is increasingly seen as necessary to offset remaining greenhouse gas emissi

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Update 2024

Compliance under the EU Effort Sharing Regulation

August 2024

The following section provides an overview of the timeline for compliance under the EU Effort Sharing Regulation. The consistent and continuous reduction of emissions in the affected sectors is of paramount importance so that the emission allowances allocated for free in 2021-2030 are ideally suffic

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Emissions from the 12 largest chemical parks in Germany

Dirty Dozen: Chemical Industry

March 2024

In this report we looked at the “Dirty Dozen,” the twelve chemical parks with the highest amount of emissions in Germany. These twelve heavyweights were responsible for a total of around 23 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2022. That is a full three percent of the overall greenhouse gas emiss

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Study for the Air Pollution and Climate Secretariat (AirClim) and the Life ETX Consortium

The Revision of the European Union Emissions Trading System Directive: Assessing Cap and Market Stability Reserve Reform Options

May 2022

The modelling exercises show that an isolated analysis of a few reform options for the cap and for the MSR can easily lead to less robust results in view of the different uncertainties. The integrated analysis of the largest possible number of options and their combinations (e.g. with a view to base

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Good Practices in GHG Inventories for the Waste Sector

February 2022

This study supports the preparation of greenhouse gas inventories in the waste sector through good practice examples which can be adopted in other countries. It complements the existing reporting guidance under the UNFCCC with real life examples in the waste sector from different countries. It is di

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Monitoring matters – transparency makes land sector climate action effective

Blog 04/23/2025

Land management has important implications for climate change, making it essential to monitor it transparently. Increased transparency helps to improve decisions, accountability, and responsibility of all actors.
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Beyond artificial safety

Blog 04/08/2025

While we translate texts, generate images or simply search for answers with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI), very few of us consider whether AI is actually safe. This is likely due to the lack of discussion or efforts to address safety issues. Dr Heidy Khlaaf, Chief AI Scientist at the AI Now Institute, has been working on AI-related safety issues for a good many years. There is still a complete disregard of AI’s susceptibility to error, she says.

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Recent projects

GHG projections: Further development of the methods and implementation of the European Governance Regulation and the German Federal Climate Change Act ("Policy Scenarios XII")

Preparation of the EU first Biennial Transparency Report under the Paris Agreement and the UNFCCC

Securing the Underground - Managing the Risks of Carbon Storage through Effective Policy Design

Information and data gathering in five Member States to support a JRC study on the effects of the EU Emissions Trading System for the buildings sector

Sustainability dimensions of hydrogen production in countries of the Global South: Insights into the current debate and approaches to implementation

Ariadne 2: Evidence-based assessment for the design of the German energy transition on the way to climate neutrality - Subproject: F0-2

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Recent projects

GHG projections: Further development of the methods and implementation of the European Governance Regulation and the German Federal Climate Change Act ("Policy Scenarios XII")

Preparation of the EU first Biennial Transparency Report under the Paris Agreement and the UNFCCC

Securing the Underground - Managing the Risks of Carbon Storage through Effective Policy Design

Information and data gathering in five Member States to support a JRC study on the effects of the EU Emissions Trading System for the buildings sector

Sustainability dimensions of hydrogen production in countries of the Global South: Insights into the current debate and approaches to implementation

Ariadne 2: Evidence-based assessment for the design of the German energy transition on the way to climate neutrality - Subproject: F0-2

Recent publications

EU 2040 Climate Target: Contributions of the Energy Supply Sector

Securing the Underground

Compliance under the EU Effort Sharing Regulation

Dirty Dozen: Chemical Industry

The Revision of the European Union Emissions Trading System Directive: Assessing Cap and Market Stability Reserve Reform Options

Good Practices in GHG Inventories for the Waste Sector

Read more

Monitoring matters – transparency makes land sector climate action effective

Beyond artificial safety