Kyle Herman
Research Fellow in Advanced Energy Studies

Research

Before joining Sussex he played a lead role at UCL's Global Governance Institute, under the Horizon 2020 funded GLOBE project, investigating climate governance in the private sector, specifically how new actors were emerging to help firms transition to a net-zero economy—such as the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), and the CDP (Coen et al., 2020; Coen et al., 2022). Other ongoing research explores how climate and environmental policies induce innovation in emerging climate change mitigation technologies (CCMTs) (Herman & Xiang, 2019), the impact of global trade on such inducement effects (Herman & Xiang, 2022), the potential for machine-learning to better inform environmental policy and anticipatory climate governance (Herman & Shenk, 2021), and collaboration for technological innovation between Newly Industrializing Countries and developed economies (Herman, 2022).