About
My research focuses on the climate finance architecture, particularly renewable energy finance in the context of Africa. Here, I explore the extent to which current instruments, actors, and financial flows of climate finance deepen power relations. I focus on how aspects of (post-)colonial power or race can be traced in climate finace.
In doing so, I draw on theories of international political economy, post- and decolonial perspectives, and the approach of critical macro finance.
On the one hand, I am pursuing these questions in my doctoral thesis. In my dissertation I am dealing with the financing relations for the promotion of renewable energies in Senegal. I am interested in how de-risking measures shift power to private financial actors in the global North. On the other hand, I am working on the CLICCS cluster on climate finance and how climate funds and energy partnerships are expressions of power interests of actors in the Global North.