Why investing in new nuclear plants is bad for the climate

Luke Haywood is head of climate and energy at the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) in Brussels and guest researcher at the Mercator Research Centre on Global Commons and Climate Change and at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), institutions where he previously held postdoc positions. He holds a PhD from the Paris School of Economics and is particularly interested in the distributional consequences of climate policies, including questions of just transition. The EEB is part of the civil-society-led consortium modeling an energy scenario compatible with 1.5 degrees, the Paris-Agreement Compatible (PAC) scenario. Marion Leroutier is a post-doctoral researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), based at Misum, a multidisciplinary research center on sustainability and also affiliated with SSE's Department of Economics. She will join ENSAE and CREST as a tenure-track assistant professor in September 2024. In the 2023/2024 academic year, she will be a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). She is an applied environmental economist focusing on two major environmental issues, ambient air pollution and climate change. Robert Pietzcker is a senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) with a background in physics and economics. He leads the National Energy Transitions Team (together with Falko Ueckerdt) in the Energy Systems group of Research Department 3 – Transformation Pathways. His work focuses on analyzing the energy transition in the EU and Germany and providing insights on the climate policies needed to achieve greenhouse gas neutrality. He coordinates the work package "Pathways to climate neutrality in the EU" in the Horizon2020 project European Energy and Climate Modelling Forum (ECEMF).