Harald Winkler

Harald Winkler is an SEI Affiliated Researcher with SEI US. His research interests are focused on inequality and climate change mitigation. He wants to explore with others how action on climate change can reduce poverty and inequality.

Harald has extensive experience in climate policy, at the international and national level. He led the research work underpinning South Africa’s Long-Term Mitigation Scenarios (LTMS, 2005–2008), an experience shared with Latin American countries in the Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS programme, 2010–2015). Other past work has included equity and future commitments to climate action; economics of climate change mitigation; energy scenarios for South Africa and Cape Town; the links between sustainable development and climate change; and renewable energy and mitigation.

Harald is jointly Editor-in-Chief of the Climate Policy journal. He is working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the third round on the Sixth Assessment Report, co-leading a chapter on mitigation and development pathways. He has been a scientific adviser on the South African delegation to the climate negotiations.

Recent publications (external to SEI)

• Winkler, H. (2018). Reducing inequality and carbon emissions: Innovation of developmental pathways. South African Journal of Science 114 (11/12): Art. #a0294, 7 pages. https://dx.doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2018/a0294
• Winkler, H., Höhne, N., Cunliffe, G.E., Kuramochi, T., April, A. and de Villafranca Casas, M.J. (2017). Countries start to explain how their climate contributions are fair: more rigour needed. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 18 (Special Issue on Climate Justice and 1.5°C): 99–115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-017-9381-x
• Klinsky, S. and Winkler, H. (2018). Building equity in: strategies for integrating equity into modelling for a 1.5°C world. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences376 (2119): 20160461. http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/376/2119/20160461.abstract
• Winkler, H. (2017). Reducing energy poverty through carbon tax revenues in South Africa. Journal of Energy in Southern Africa 28 (3): 12-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3051/2017/v28i3a2332

Expertise:

• international climate policy;
• mitigation;
• inequality;
• energy