?Heiner von Lüpke is a senior researcher at the Climate Policy Department of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, Germany. Prior, he studied international forestry and management, as well as Latin American studies at the Technical University Dresden, Germany, and completed his PhD in political science at the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. His previous work experience includes 3 years at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN-FAO), almost 8 years at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) as a climate policy advisor to the Indonesian government, and 3 years advising the German government on international climate policy. His research focuses on the cross-sectoral aspects of climate policy-making, climate governance, as well as international climate finance and cooperation.