Dr. Vicki Duscha

Since 2008, Dr. Vicki Duscha has been working as a researcher and project manager in the Business Unit Climate Policy of the Department of Energy Policy and Energy Markets (previously: Energy Policy and Energy Systems). Since 2014, she has been Coordinator of the Business Unit Climate Policy.

Her research focuses on the design, further development and evaluation of the EU Emissions Trading System. She also investigates alternative emissions trading concepts, such as upstream approaches and personal carbon trading models, and their practical implementation. Another focus of her work is the development of instruments, such as no-lose targets, sectoral approaches or new market-based mechanisms, for integrating non-Annex I countries into international emission reduction efforts. She is also involved in the design of international climate protection agreements after 2012, particularly with regard to setting reduction targets for industrialized and developing countries and researching flexible mechanisms for the effective implementation of these targets. In addition, she is involved in the modelling of energy systems.

Vicki Duscha studied Mathematics and Economics at the Technical University of Dortmund. From 2006 to 2007 she wrote her diploma thesis at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. From 2008-2012 she was an external doctoral candidate under the supervision of Professor Ehrhart at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) where she wrote her thesis on “No-lose targets as an option to integrate non-Annex I countries in global emission reduction efforts – A game-theoretical analysis“.