Dr Lara Welder
Deputy Head of Climate Policy
Climate Policy Analysis
Lara Welder is a member of the Climate Policy Team at Climate Analytics. With her research expertise in the area of energy system modelling and optimisation, she contributes to the tool development within the team. Among other roles, this includes leading the modelling work under the IKEA project in which approaches for assessing highest plausible ambition trajectories for various countries to meet the Paris Agreement are developed.
Lara is a Process Systems Engineer by training and she received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from RWTH Aachen University. Her studies included stays abroad at Tongji University, Shanghai, China, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Furthermore, she worked for four years as a scientific researcher at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. During this time, she worked in the fields of both Energy Engineering and Software Development.
Publications
- Riany, Welder, Grant, Kellou, Klönne, Hare. The role of northern forests in limiting warming to 1.5°C. (2024)
- Setting 1.5°C compatible wind and solar targets
- Grant, N., Aboumahboub, T., Welder, L., Fyson, C. Tripling renewables by 2030: interpreting the global goal at the regional level
- Welder, L., Grant, N., Aboumahboub, T., Fyson, C., De Vivero, G., Lui, S., Daly, E., Hagemann, M., Missirliu, A. Wind and solar benchmarks for a 1.5°C world. (2023)
- Hörsch, J., Houlie, T., Welder, L., Das, N., Riany, F. A 1.5°C future is possible: getting fossil fuels out of the Philippine power sector. (2023)
- Welder, L., Grant, N., Aboumhaboub, T., Hörsch, J., Maxwell, V., Fyson, C., Hare, B. Clean power in South Korea. (2023)
- No room for new gas in South Korea
- Renewable energy transition in sub-Saharan Africa
- 1.5°C pathways for the Council of Europe
- 1.5°C Pathways for the EU27: accelerating climate action to deliver the Paris Agreement
- National 1.5°C compatible emissions pathways and consistent power sector benchmarks in Africa
- 1.5°C Pathways for Europe: Achieving the highest plausible climate ambition
- Employment opportunities from a coal-to-renewables transition in South Korea
- National 1.5°C Compatible Emissions Pathways and Consistent Power Sector Benchmarks: Indonesia, Viet Nam, Philippines, India and Japan
- US and China climate goals: Scenarios for 2030 and mid-century
- Decarbonisation of Australia’s energy system: Integrated modeling of the transformation of electricity, transportation, and industrial sectors
