Arne Jungjohann (@Arne_JJ) is a political scientist and senior energy analyst. His fields of expertise are climate, democracy, and coalition governments.
Arne is a crossover between science and politics. He co-authored Energy Democracy – Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables, a standard work on the German energy transition. His upcoming research looks at how the transition to renewable energy will impact geopolitics and international relations. In addition to climate and energy matters, Arne focuses with his research on political parties, federalism, and coalition governments. In German Greens in Coalition Governments he looks at the intersection of governance, coalition building and party politics.
Arne is a member of the Green Academy of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and lecturer at the Faculty of Cultural Reflection at the University of Witten/Herdecke.
Previously, Arne worked for Minister President Winfried Kretschmann in the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Washington DC, in the Bundestag office of MP Reinhard Loske, and in his family-owned company. He studied political science at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Free University of Berlin. He lives with his family in Stuttgart.
Vita Arne Jungjohann
| Since 2014 | Author and freelance consultant |
| 2013 | Director of Policy and Planning Division, State Ministry Baden-Württemberg |
| 2007-2013 | Program Director for Environment and Global Dialogue, Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America, Washington DC |
| 2001-2007 | Parliamentary Assistant to Dr. Reinhard Loske, Member of Deutscher Bundestag, deputy party floor leader, Alliance 90/The Greens |
| 2000-2001 | Assistant to Management, Detlev Jungjohann Engineer Lmt. Isernhagen, Germany |
| 1997-1999 | Masters in Political Science, Free University, Berlin |
| 1994-1997 | Political Science, Economics, Philipps University, Marburg |
| 1993 | Abitur, Gymnasium Langenhagen |
Current Projects
In Energy Democracy: Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables (Palgrave MacMillan 2016), Craig Morris and I argue that an active role for citizens in the energy transition helps revitalizing communities and strengthening democracy. Overall, citizen energy is an antidote to rising populism. We presented the findings on speaking tours in the Netherlands, the United States and Canada. This summer I hosted a seminar on energy democracy and how the transition to renewables will impact geopolitics as a guest lecturer at the University of Witten/Herdecke.
In German Greens in Coalition Governments I have looked at the Green Party’s governing experience on Germany’s state level. The study offers insights how the German Greens have built up informal structures to coordinate between the state and federal level (German version Grün Regieren). The English version has been released in March 2017 at the Global Greens Conference (video). My upcoming research tries to answer if the Germans Greens succeed in implementing policies for an ecological modernization. The Heinrich-Böll-Foundation will publish the new study in both English and German in spring 2019.
Publications in English
- Energy Democracy (Co-author: Craig Morris) (2016)
- “El 47% de las renovables en Alemania son propiedad de la gente” (Interview BallenaBlanca) (February 2018)
- Future of Germany’s coal sector hangs on elections (China Dialogue) (September 2017)
- Ignore ‘red line’ campaign talk on energy and climate (September 2017)
- The Green Party in Germany’s state governments (Study) (August 2017)
- German Elections: The Future of the Energiewende (China Dialogue) (Juli 2017)
- Germany Shows It’s Worth Fighting For Energy Democracy (Resilience.org) (June 2017)
- Energy Democracy goes Canada (June 2017)
- Interview: People want to produce power themselves (Czech daily Hospodářské Noviny) (May 2017)
- Strategic flexibility (April 2017)
- German Greens in Coalition Governments (April 2017)
- Energiewende gets lots of attention, but for wrong reasons (pv magazine) (February 2017)
- Energiewende goes USA (November 2017)
- Interview: Citizen energy, the antidote to populism (November 2016)
- Germany’s Clean Energy Revolution Focuses On Empowering Individuals (October 2016)
- The Energiewende – A Success Story at a Crossroads (PDF) (October 2016)
- Sticks and Carrots: Germany’s approach to renewable heating (June 2015)
- The German Coal Conundrum (PDF) (June 2014)
- The Grist (Blog)
- The German Green Party: From a Broad Social Movement to a People’s Party. Article in Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective (September 2013)
- Climate Progress – Fighting Climate Change And Phasing Out Nuclear Power Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin (April 2012)
- The Hill – Germany’s goodbye to nuclear power (July 2011)
- Harvesting Clean Energy on Ontario Farms (June 2011)
- Voice of America – Discussion on the End of Nuclear Power (June 2011)
- Kojo Nnamdi Show (NPR) – Interview on Shuttering Nuclear Power (June 2011)
- Why is the United States so obsessed with nuclear power? (May 2011)
- No Nukes, No Problem? Germany’s Race for a Renewable Future (May 2011, with Wilson Rickerson)
- Interview with Earthbeat Radio: “German Energy Policy after Fukushima” (April 2011)
- Biogas in Germany – Presentation at EESI-Briefing (June 2010)
- A Changing Climate: The U.S. is Facing a New Era in Climate Policy after the Election of Barack Obama (November 2008)
Publications in German
- Das Mandat für die ökologische Transformation (November 2017)
- Der G-Kamin: Grünes Politikmanagement im föderalen Verbund (Oktober 2017)
- Landesgrüne im Wandel: Neue Koalitionskonstellationen und beginnender Generationenwechsel (August 2017)
- Die G-Länder – Grün Regieren für die ökologische Modernisierung (August 2017)
- Anfangs mussten sie Lehrgeld zahlen (Juli 2017)
- Trump manövriert die USA ins klimapolitische Abseits (Juni 2017)
- Großkraftwerke sind von gestern (Mai 2017)
- Grünes Stimmgewicht im Bundesrat (Mai 2017)
- Dornröschenschlaf in der Schweiz (Mai 2017)
- Das Macht-Paradox der Grünen (März 2017)
- Bürger mit Rückenwind – Beitrag in der taz (Februar 2017)
- Vom Bohren dicker Bretter – Porträt in Kultur&Technik (Januar 2017)
- Grün regieren. Eine Analyse der Regierungspraxis von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Dezember 2016)
- Eine gerechtere Form des Kapitalismus (Dezember 2016)
- Was macht die Energiewende im internationalen Vergleich so besonders? (Oktober 2016)
- Kohleatlas – Daten und Fakten über einen globalen Brennstoff (Juni 2015)
- Braunkohle – Irrläufer der deutschen Stromerzeugung (November 2014)
- Klima der Gerechtigkeit – Beiträge auf dem Blog der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
- Barack Obama und die Klimalage der Nation – Interview mit Politikum WDR (Februar 2013) (MP3)
- Ein US-Präsident kann nicht “grün” sein – zeo2 (Januar 2013)
- Die USA vor Wahl: Ein Land im Gasrausch (November 2012, mit Rebecca Bertram)
- Eselfantenblog – Beiträge auf dem Blog des Grünen OV Washington zur Präsidentschaftswahl 2012
- Fossile Lobby in USA fürchtet Erfolg der deutschen Energiewende – Interview mit der HAZ (Juli 2012)
- Fukushima in den USA: Was wäre wenn? (März 2012)
- Transatlantische Teersandschlacht: Lobbyismus und dreckiges Oel sind Kanadas neue Exportware (Februar 2012, mit Eva Zschirnt)
- Mit wehenden Fahnen voran – Die USA & die EU in den UN-Klimaverhandlungen in Durban. Beitrag in The European (November 2011)
- Amerika – Abschied von der Atomrenaissance? Beitrag im UfU (Mai 2011)
- Made in Germany: Atomausstieg wird zum globalen Schaufenster der Energiewende. Gastbeitrag im FUE Rundbrief (Februar 2011)
- Obama, die Republikaner und der Klimaschutz in den USA – Interview mit Radio Lora (Mai 2011) (MP3)
- Mission Impossible – Die US-Klimapolitik mit offenem Ausgang. Beitrag im Buch Mehr Mut beim Klimaschutz (März 2011)
- US-Republikaner auf Klima-Geisterfahrt. Beitrag bei den Klimarettern (April 2011)
- Nach der US-Wahl: Zuckerbrot und Peitsche. Beitrag bei den Klimarettern (November 2010)
- Zwischenwahlen: Klimaschutz in USA nur Wohlfühlthema. Interview im DRadio Kultur (Okt. 2010) (MP3)
- Obamas Klima-GAU? Beitrag in den Blättern für Deutsche & Internationale Politik (Juni 2010, mit Jens Kendzia)
- Abbruch oder Durchbruch? – US Klimapolitik vor Kopenhagen (November 2009, mit Till Koetter)
- US Repräsentantenhaus stimmt für umfassendes Energie- & Klimapaket (Mai 2009, mit Gisa Holzhausen)