Sabine Fuss heads a working group on natural resource management at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in Berlin, and holds a guest affiliation at the Ecosystems Services and Management Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. An economist by background, her PhD thesis was concerned with decision making under uncertainty with applications to investment and climate policy in the energy sector. Sabine’s research interests now focus on the role of bioenergy (and specifically negative emissions) in climate change mitigation, and the interactions this has with other land-based mitigation options such as REDD+ and (non-climate) objectives such as food and water security and development. In addition, she believes that we need more research on policy instruments, not only forward-looking but also ex post assessments to learn from experience.