Kyle HermanResearch Fellow in Advanced Energy Studies
Research
Before joining Sussex he played a lead role at UCL's , under the Horizon 2020 funded , investigating climate governance in the private sector, specifically how new actors were emerging to help firms transition to a net-zero economy—such as the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), and the CDP (; ). Other ongoing research explores how climate and environmental policies induce innovation in emerging climate change mitigation technologies (CCMTs) (), the impact of global trade on such inducement effects (Herman & Xiang, 2022), the potential for machine-learning to better inform environmental policy and anticipatory climate governance (), and collaboration for technological innovation between Newly Industrializing Countries and developed economies ().