Lena Klaaßen
Clausiusstrasse 37
Room CLD C 5
CH-8092 Zürich
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Lena joined the Climate Finance and Policy (CFP) group in February 2021 as a PhD candidate. As part of the GREENFIN project, she conducts research on the role of the financial sector in accelerating investment in low-carbon technologies. She is specifically involved in investigating technological changes and their future investment needs for a Paris-compatible pathway.
Lena holds a Master’s degree in Management & Technology from external page TU Munich (Germany) with majors in finance, power engineering and energy markets. She wrote her Master’s Thesis in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s external page MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, analyzing and quantifying errors in corporate carbon footprint disclosures.
In addition to her work at CFP, Lena has been researching on environmental impacts of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies together with an interdisciplinary research team from TU Munich. The results have been published in several articles. In 2021, she also co-founded external page CCRI, a company providing data on sustainability aspects of cryptocurrencies, blockchain and other technologies.
In her free time, Lena enjoys listening to all kinds of podcast, from pop culture to politics, and likes to go for a run on the panoramic trail of Uetliberg.
Publications
Klaaßen, L., Steffen, B. (2023). Meta-analysis on necessary investment shifts to reach net zero pathways in Europe. Nature Climate Change, 13, 58–66. external page https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01549-5
Stoll, C., Gallersdörfer, U., & Klaaßen, L. (2022). Climate impacts of the metaverse. Joule, 6(12), 2668–2673. external page https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JOULE.2022.10.013
Luers, A., Yona, L., Field, C. B., Jackson, R. B., Mach, K. J., Cashore, B. W., Elliott, C., Gifford, L., Honigsberg, C., Klaassen, L., Matthews, H. D., Peng, A., Stoll, C., Van Pelt, M., Virginia, R.A., Joppa, L. (2022). Make greenhouse-gas accounting reliable—build interoperable systems. Nature, 607 (7920), 653-656. external page doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02033-y
De Vries, A., Gallersdörfer, U., Klaaßen, L., Stoll, C. (2022). Revisiting Bitcoin’s carbon footprint. Joule, 6(3), 498-502. external page https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2022.02.005
Klaaßen, L., Stoll, C. (2021). Harmonizing corporate carbon footprints. Nature Communications, 12(1), 1–13. external page doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26349-x
De Vries, A., Gallersdörfer, U., Klaaßen, L., Stoll, C. (2021). The true costs of digital currencies: Exploring impact beyond energy use. One Earth, 4(6), 786-789. external page https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.05.009
Gallersdörfer, U., Klaaßen, L., Stoll, C. (2020). Energy consumption of cryptocurrencies beyond bitcoin. Joule, 4(9), 1843-1846. external page https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2020.07.013
Stoll, C., Klaaßen, L., Gallersdörfer, U. (2019). The carbon footprint of bitcoin. Joule, 3(7), 1647-1661. external page https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2019.05.012