Wolfram Jörß

Senior Researcher
Energy & Climate

Special Expertise

• Emission inventories, modelling, projections & reduction measures for Greenhouse gases & air pollutants
• Assessment on renewable & efficiency technologies
• Policies and measures on fluorinated gases
• Energy foresight methodologies

Key Projects

• Preparation of the EU 2nd Biennial Report under the UNFCCC
• Implications of changed reporting obligations for the EU ETS and the Greenhouse Gas Inventory by means of the Effort Sharing Decision
• Climate protection and cogeneration: Current developments in the context of economic conditions and technological progress
• Preparation of the EU 1st Biennial Report and EU 6th National Communication under the UNFCCC
• Methodological adaptation of the German GHG emission inventories to the revised „UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual inventories for Parties included in Annex I to the Convention“
• Evaluation of the national part of the Climate Initiative (Micro-CHP & Commercial Cooling)
• European Topic Centre on air pollution and climate change mitigation (F-Gas Reporting & Proxy Inventory)
• Measures for improving the market penetration of climate-friendly technologies without halogenated substances
• Impact Assessment for the Revision of the F-Gas Regulation
• Air quality 2020/2030
• PAREST – Particle Reduction Strategies
• Emission scenarios for fine particles
• Measures to comply with the NEC Directive
• EFONET – Energy Foresight Network / EURENDEL – European Energy Delphi

Career

• Since 2011: senior scientist at Öko-Institut
• 2000 – 2011: senior scientist at the Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT)
• 1997 – 2000 scientific staff at the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA)

Education

• Berlin Technical University: Graduate Degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Environmental Engineering

Language Skills

• English (fluent)
• Russian, French (good knowledge)