Fernanda Ballesteros

Fernanda Ballesteros

Ph.D. Student
Climate Policy Department

Contact

+49 30 89789 - 481
fballesteros@diw.de
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Working Areas
  • Climate policy
  • Industry
  • Transition risks
  • Sustainable Finance & Transition finance
Fernanda is a Ph.D. Student and Research Associate at the Climate Policy Department, where she is working on the topic of transition risks in energy-intensive industries related to the economy's shift towards climate neutrality. She studied Public Policy at the Hertie School and Università Bocconi for her Master's degree and completed her Bachelor's degree at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). For her Master's thesis, she analyzed the impact of energy taxes on energy poverty indicators in the EU at a macro level.

Publications

DIW Wochenbericht 47 / 2025

Reform des CO2-Grenzausgleichs ist entscheidend für wettbewerbsfähige Industrie

2025| Karsten Neuhoff, Fernanda Ballesteros, Antonia Kurz, Paula Niemöller
DIW Discussion Papers 2114 / 2025

Industry Transition to Climate Neutrality: Comparing Policy Approaches in Times of Geopolitical Fragmentation

2025| Till Köveker, Fernanda Ballesteros, Franziska Klaucke, Antonia Kurz, Karsten Neuhoff, Paula Niemöller, Sangeeth Selvaraju
DIW aktuell ; 114 : Sonderausgaben zur Bundestagswahl 2025 / 2025

Grundstoffindustrie braucht wirksamen Ausgleich von international unterschiedlichen CO2-Kosten

2025| Karsten Neuhoff, Fernanda Ballesteros, Till Köveker
DIW Weekly Report 28 / 2024

Transitioning to Net Zero: Full Potential of Sustainable Finance Taxonomies Not Yet Exhausted

2024| Catherine Marchewitz, Franziska Schütze, Fernanda Ballesteros
DIW Wochenbericht 28 / 2024

Übergang zur Klimaneutralität: Potenzial nachhaltiger Finanztaxonomien noch nicht ausgeschöpft

2024| Catherine Marchewitz, Franziska Schütze, Fernanda Ballesteros
Externe Monographien

Industrial Decarbonisation in a Fragmented World:: An Effective Carbon Price with a ‘Climate Contribution’

London: Grantham Research Institute, 2025, 13 S.
(Policy Insight) | Karsten Neuhoff, Misato Sato, Fernanda Ballesteros, Christoph Böhringer
Refereed essays Web of Science

Contracting Matters: Hedging Producers and Consumers with a Renewable Energy Pool

In: The Energy Journal 46 (2025), 4, S. 203-225 | Karsten Neuhoff, Fernanda Ballesteros, Mats Kröger, Jörn C. Richstein
Externe Working Papers

Enhancing Comparability and Credibility of Transition Plans and Transition Risk Assessment with Standardized Net Zero Scenarios

WPSF, 2024, 20 S.
(Policy Brief / Wissenschaftsplattform Sustainable Finance ; 2/2024) | Franziska Schütze, Fernanda Ballesteros, Alexandra Hüttel, Karol Kempa, Ulf Moslener, Karsten Neuhoff, Gireesh Shrimali
Refereed essays Web of Science

Assessing the Social and Environmental Impacts of Critical Mineral Supply Chains for the Energy Transition in Europe

In: Global Environmental Change 86 (2024), 102841, 18 S. | Etienne Berthet, Julien Lavalley, Candy Anquetil-Deck, Fernanda Ballesteros, Konstantin Stadler, Ugur Soytas, Michael Hauschild, Alexis Laurent
Externe Working Papers

Climate Transition Plans: State of Play in EU Legislation and Policy Recommendations

WPSF, 2023, 23 S.
(Policy Brief / Wissenschaftsplattform Sustainable Finance ; 3/2023) | Fernanda Ballesteros, Malte Hessenius, Alexandra Hüttel, Catherine Marchewitz, Karsten Neuhoff, Franziska Schütze, Leon Stolle

Lectures

Vortrag

Transition Risk Perception in Times of Climate Policy Uncertainty: How Does it Drive Firm-level Net Zero Ambition?

Fernanda Ballesteros
Berlin, 30.09.2025 | Climate Policy – Research in Action Day: DIW Berlin
Vortrag

Die Nutzung von Klimaszenarien an der Schnittstelle von Real- und Finanzwirtschaft (Abschlusskonferenz SATISFY)

Fernanda Ballesteros
Frankfurt a. Main, 30.09.2025 - 02.10.2025| Nachhaltige Finanzierung - Brücke zwischen Finanz- und Realwirtschaft: 9. Sustainable Finance Gipfel 2025
Vortrag

Transition Risk Perception in Times of Climate Policy Uncertainty: How Does it Drive Firm-level Net Zero Ambition?

Fernanda Ballesteros
Berlin, 26.06.2025 - 27.06.2025| BSoE-DIW Berlin Graduate Center 2025 Summer Workshop
Vortrag

Climate Leaders and Laggards in the Steel Industry – Transition Risks under an Accelerated Climate Neutrality Scenario

Karsten Neuhoff, Fernanda Ballesteros
Paris, Frankreich, 02.12.2024 | Supervisory Approaches to Transition Risk Assessment: Research Workshop, European Banking Authority (EBA) and LSE Centre for Economic Transition Expertise (CETEx)
Vortrag

Transition Risks in the Steel Industry for Early and Late Adopters under Different Policy Scenarios for Climate Neutrality

Fernanda Ballesteros
Berlin, 24.09.2024 | Making Transition Plans Work – Research and Practice Perspectives on Transition Plans and Transition Risks Assessment: Joint Workshop, DIW Berlin, LSE, CETEx...

Research Projects

Research Project

Scenario Analysis as a Tool for InvestorS, Firms, and regulators on the path to climate neutralitY (SATISFY)

Completed Project| Climate Policy
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