Wolfram Jörß

Special Expertise

• Policies and measures on fluorinated greenhouse gases
• Emission inventories and projections for greenhouse gases and air pollutants
• Reporting and review under the UNFCCC
• Monitoring of climate change policies
• Assessment on renewable and efficiency technologies

Key Projects

• Review of EU F-Gas-Regulation 517/2014
• Monitoring of HFC prices and HFC phase-down under the EU-F-Gas-Regulation
• Technical support for the implementation of EU F-gas policies
• Technical support on international F-gas policies
• Measures for improving the market penetration of climate-friendly technologies without halogenated substances
• Impact Assessment for the Revision of the F-Gas Regulation 842/2006
• European Topic Centre on Climate Change Mitigation
• Data concepts in the German national emission trading system
• Handbook on data concepts in the EU-ETS
• Implications of changed reporting obligations for the EU ETS and the Greenhouse Gas Inventory by means of the Effort Sharing Decision
• Conceptualization of a common transparency framework under the Paris Agreement.
• Preparation of implementing and delegated acts in the climate field under the Governance Regulation
• Review of emissions inventories and national communications / biennial reports under the UNFCCC
• Preparation of the 2^nd EU biennial report under the UNFCCC
• Preparation of the EU 1^st Biennial Report and EU 6^th 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)
• Monitoring, evaluation ad further development of the German CHP Act
• Assessment of the environmental, social and economic impacts of the sector targets for 2030 of the Federal Government's Climate Action Plan 2050
• Air quality 2020/2030
• PAREST – Particle Reduction Strategies
• Emission scenarios for fine particles
• Measures to comply with the NEC Directive

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)