Scientist: Sabine Fuss

Prof. Dr. Sabine Fuss is an economist and head of research department at the Potsdam Institute of Climate Research Impact. She co-heads the research group “Climate Economics and Policy – MCC Berlin” (RD5) and is also working group leader of the research group “Sustainable Carbon Management” at RD5. She holds a professorship in Sustainable Resource Management and Global Change at the Geographical Institute of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Previously, Prof. Fuss worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria that she is still guest-affiliated with. Her expertise is in sustainable development, tropical rainforest conservation, and climate change mitigation, with a particular focus on Carbon Dioxide Removal from the atmosphere (CDR).

She has been a lead author for the Special Report on 1.5°C global warming for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations, and was appointed to the European Academy of Sciences in 2021. Prof. Fuss received her PhD in International Economics from Maastricht University in 2008.

Smoke from factory chimney. Pollution and carbon capture technology concept

Carbon dioxide removal technologies: can they help us fight climate change?

The final document of the last United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly known as COP30, acknowledges that the world is approaching an overshoot – that is, exceeding the 1.5 °C global warming threshold. Reducing future emission will be essential, but no longer sufficient: we will also need to actively remove the carbon dioxide (CO2) ...

Sabine Fuss interview: Smoke from factory chimney. Pollution and carbon capture technology concept

A scientist’s opinion: interview with Sabine Fuss on removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Sabine Fuss is an economist and head of research department at the Potsdam Institute of Climate Research Impact. To start, there are multiple ways to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, and several terms are often used: carbon dioxide removal (CDR), carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), direct air capture (DAC), bioenergy combined with ...