Mareike Blum is research analyst for political science and global governance at the WBGU Secretariat since May 2023. She studied Political Science in Passau and Environmental Governance in Freiburg. In her doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg, she researched the discursive legitimation of transnational climate governance using the case of the global carbon offset markets. In this context, she dealt with the architecture of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement. In parallel, she worked as a researcher in the field of forest climate policy. From 2020-2023, she was at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in Berlin, where she conducted research on a knowledge co-production process about the German Energy Transition, developing her expertise in deliberation and social learning at the science-policy-society interface.