Charlotte Plinke is a doctoral researcher in the Research Group Welfare and Policy Design (Research Department Climate Economics and Policy - MCC Berlin). Her research focuses on the political economy of climate change mitigation and distributional aspects of climate policies.
She holds a master’s degree in Environmental Economics and Climate Change from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a master’s degree in Statistics and Econometrics from Toulouse School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Humboldt University Berlin.
Contact
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
cplinke[at]pik-potsdam.de
Location Berlin: EUREF-Campus 19
P.O. Box 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam
14412 Potsdam
Peer-reviewed publications
- Plinke, C., Sureth, M. & Kalkuhl, M. Environmental impacts from European food consumption can be reduced with carbon pricing or a value-added tax reform. Nat Food (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01284-y.
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Schaper, J., Franks, M., Koch, N., Plinke, C., & Sureth, M. (2025). On the emission and distributional effects of a CO2eq-tax on agricultural goods—The case of Germany. Food Policy, 130, 102794.
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Schleypen, J. R., Plinke, C., & Geiger, T. (2024). The impacts of multiple tropical cyclone events and associated precipitation on household income and expenditures. Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 8(2), 197-233.
