ABOUT

Michael Sureth is a doctoral researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). He is part of the research department Climate Economics and Policy – MCC Berlin. His research centers around the integration of planetary boundaries into welfare economic analysis with a special focus on biodiversity economics. He uses analytical and integrated assessment modelling as well as quantitative methods, to analyze economic implications of the environmental problems captured within the planetary boundaries framework.

Currently, he works on building a theoretical and conceptual basis for public economic analyses of the scarcities and uncertainties imposed onto economies by the planetary boundaries. Moreover, he analyzes the effects of incorporating further planetary boundaries – besides climate change – into integrated assessment models. Doing so, he tries to identify and evaluate policy instruments that simultaneously address multiple planetary boundaries by taking into account arising synergies and trade-offs.