Dr. Tobias Zumbrägel is a postdoc at the center for excellence ‘Climate, Climatic Change and Society’ (CLICCS) at the University of Hamburg and a researcher at CARPO, Bonn. He studied History, Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies in Cologne, Tuebingen and Cairo. and holds a Ph.D. from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Dr. Zumbrägel is the author of Political Power and Environmental Sustainability in Gulf Monarchies (Palgrave 2022).