Danielle Riedl is a Research Associate in WRI’s U.S. Climate Program. She carries out research and analysis on how to responsibly scale carbon removal and industrial decarbonization technologies, tracks policy and legislative developments, and supports knowledge and communication products. She also carries out research on just transitions within the US energy transition context.

Prior to WRI, Danielle worked as a Research Analyst in Industrial Decarbonization and Just Transitions for the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU). She has also worked for the Climate Policy Support Program at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Bonn, and the UN ECLAC in Santiago, Chile.

Danielle holds a Masters of Science (MSc) in Climate Change, Development and Policy from the University of Sussex and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK, and a B.A. in International Studies from Leiden University, in the Netherlands.

Danielle lives in Brooklyn, NY and enjoys analog photography.