Martje Köppen

Martje Köppen is a Dean's Scholar and scholar of the German government at the Faculty of Law reading for her DPhil in Law at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, where she researches the (contested) role of law in the Net Zero transition. Her present research interests cover:

• the legislation and regulation of Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
• the decarbonisation of the energy and industry sector's hard to abate process emissions and the role of law and legal instruments in this context. 

Previous to joining the Sustainable Law Programme, Martje worked for the German government on the conceptualisation and establishment of Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfDs). Martje holds a law degree from Bucerius Law School (Scholar of the German Government) and an MSc in Environmental and Energy Technology from Imperial College London (Imperial Scholar and Turing Scholar). 
 

Martje's work has been featured in German Law journals and German media.