Harald Winkler is a professor in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment and associate of Policy Research in International Services and Manufacturing and African Climate and Development Initiative at the University of Cape Town.
His research interests are focused around climate policy, at international and national level. He led the research work underpinning South Africa’s Long-Term Mitigation Scenarios (LTMS). From 2010 to 2015, a significant focus of his work with other developing countries to share the LTMS experience in a programme called MAPS – Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (see www.mapsprogramme.org).
