Jana Karras

Jana Karras specialises in German and Ukrainian law, international climate policy and climate finance. She has experience in international research and consultancy projects on developing and overseeing capacity building and knowledge sharing activities. Jana Karras focuses on the financing of the energy transition and climate measures, the evaluation of policy approaches in the field of energy efficiency and climate policy at the global, regional, national, and local levels. Jana Karras...See more

Jana Karras specialises in German and Ukrainian law, international climate policy and climate finance. She has experience in international research and consultancy projects on developing and overseeing capacity building and knowledge sharing activities. Jana Karras focuses on the financing of the energy transition and climate measures, the evaluation of policy approaches in the field of energy efficiency and climate policy at the global, regional, national, and local levels. Jana Karras accessed national institutional and financial capacities and developed options to improve the access to the IKI and was involved in the development of climate change projects in Central Asia, East and South Europe. She contributed to the work on assessing legal and financing options for Berlin and Spree-Nei�e to facilitate energy transition in the project "Energy Transition in Social Space - ESRa and to enabling exchange with best practices on financing the implementation of climate and energy management in municipalities of Germany, Slovakia, and Czechia with project "EnPowerClimate" (EUKI/BMU). Jana Karras holds a master's degree in law from the National University "Law Academy of Ukraine named after Yaroslav Mudryi". She has also successfully passed the first state examination in law in Germany (Diplom-Juristin, Greifswald University) and is currently completing her legal clerkship at the Naumburg Higher Regional Court in Saxony-Anhalt. See less