Prof. Dr. Ulf Moslener

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Professor of Sustainable Energy Finance
Head of Finance Department

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Personal Details

Ulf Moslener is professor for sustainable energy finance at the faculty of Frankfurt School and Head of Research of the UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate and Sustainable Energy Finance. His broader research interests are the economics of climate change, sustainable finance and climate finance.

He was representing Germany in the UN Standing Committee on Climate Finance and currently serves as Vice Chair of the Advisory Group to the Clean Investment Funds (CIFs) at World Bank and as Vice Chair of the Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany (GSFCG). He is a founding member of the “Wissenschaftsplattform Sustainable Finance” - the german research platform for sustainable finance.

In the past, he was deputy head of the department of „Environmental and Resource Economics and Environmental management“ at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, Germany. His main research areas are international climate policy, the analysis of carbon regulation, carbon emissions trading, and policy instruments to promote renewable energy. He led a number of research projects, e.g. on behalf of German Federal Ministries or the European Commission.

Thereafter he joined KfW Development Bank, where he was dealing with the practice of financing renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing and newly industrialized countries within the German development co-operation. Ulf Moslener holds a Diploma in Physics and a PhD in economics from the University of Heidelberg.

Prof. Ulf Moslener about the Global Trends in Renewable Energy Report

Fossile Brennstoffe wie Kohle, Öl oder Erdgas treiben Autos an und produzieren Elektrizität oder Wärme. Leider verursachen sie auch Kohlenstoffdioxidausstoß, der den Klimawandel vorantreibt. Die Europäische Union hat beschlossen, den Ausstoß entscheidend zu reduzieren. Hier kommt der Emissionshandel ins Spiel:
Die Europäische Union setzt eine Obergrenze für den Ausstoß fest und teilt diese in Zertifikate auf. Ein Zertifikat entspricht einer Tonne CO2. Die Zertifikate werden nun an Unternehmen verteilt. Für jede Tonne CO2, die ein Unternehmen verursacht, muss dieses ein Zertifikat einreichen. Je nach Bedarf können Zertifikate auf einem Markt gekauft oder verkauft werden.