• Born December 29, 1983, Hamburg
• 2003-2008 studies of environmental sciences at the University of Lüneburg and the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao
• 2008 Diploma thesis on "Public Participation in Strategic Environmental Assessment in China"
• April-December 2009 research assistant at the University of Lüneburg in public law, especially energy and environmental law
• Since 2009 employee of Ökopol
• Since October 2010 on-going dissertation “Sufficiency as policy: a theoretical and empirical analysis of the possibilities and limitations to a political implementation of the sufficiency strategy” (working title)
  
  
  

Healthy and environmentally sound products:
Ecodesign Directive, Energy Labelling, Life Cycle Assessment, development and assessment of ecolabel standards, energy and resource efficiency

Environmental policy and communication:
Environmental policy instruments and steering, efficiency and sufficiency

Laura Spengler

Healthy and environmentally sound products:

Contributions for Resource Efficiency Increase by Means of Product Innovation - Establishment of Demanding Efficiency Standards within a European Top Runner Approach in the Context of Implementation of the Eco-Efficiency Directive (EuP) (commissioned by German Federal Environmental Agency, Berlin, 2009-2012)

Resource and material efficiency - relevant aspects in the context of the EU-Ecodesign Directive (EuP) (commissioned by German Federal Environmental Agency, 2009-2011)

Study on a concept for a product-related TOP-Runner approach on EU-Level (commissioned by German Federal Environmental Agency, 2009-2010)

Advice, elaboration of information material and trainings on the EuP directive (commissioned by EBV Elektronic, 2008-2010)

Analysis of impact of efficiency on EU GHG emissions (EuP Directive) (commissioned by European Commission, DG Environment, Brussels, 2008-2010)

Technical support of the environmental NGOs for their stakeholder representation within the implementation of the Ecodesign Directive (EuP) (commissioned by European Environmental Citizens Organisation for Standardisation (asbl) - ECOS, Brüssel, 2007-2010)



Environmental policy and communication:

"Suffizienz und Effizienz - Ein Fall für zwei" ("Efficiency and Sufficiency - a case for two"). Article by L. Brischke and L. Spengler in Politische Ökologie No. 126 "Spannungsgeladen - Zukunft der Energieversorgung", pp. 86-93.