Assessing Economic Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Summary of a Workshop (2009) / Chapter Skim
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B Speaker and Panelist Biographical Information
B Speaker and Panelist Biographical Information
Pages 36-44
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She serves on the board of directors of the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, and the Alliance to Save Energy; she is on the editorial boards of several journals including the Journal of Technology Transfer. She is a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy and the National Academies' Board of Energy and Environmental Systems, and she is a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, among other awards.
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. His office is responsible for the domestic and international midterm energy projections and the Greenhouse Gas Program and publishes the Annual Energy Outlook, the International Energy Outlook, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States, and the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
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He was responsible for developing and applying EPA's economic models for domestic and international climate change policy analysis. He led EPA's efforts to produce the agency's first independent economic analysis of a climate policy, the McCain-Lieberman bill of 2007.
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. His research interests include health impact assessments methods, integrated climate and air quality assessment models, reduced form air quality modeling, selection of optimal controls to maximize net benefits of air quality regulations, and improving valuation of health and environmental changes.
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He has led a number of strategic assessments for clients in the private sector, advising them on how future climate policies and other environmental regulations could affect their asset value, investment decisions, and strategic direction. He is the author of recent studies on the design of California's policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions and on the economic impacts of U.S.
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He specializes in developing and applying economic models to analyze environmental and natural resource policies, programs, and regulations. He is a widely recognized expert in the integration of economic and biophysical models to assess greenhouse gas mitigation strategies in agriculture, land use change, and forestry.
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He was a coordinating lead author for the synthesis chapter on climate change impacts for the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and was a lead author for the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report. He has provided technical advice, guidance, 42
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Previously, he was a senior economist who has spent a year working with Lord Stern on the Stern Review on Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by the then Chancellor Gordon Brown. He continues to act as an external advisor to the government of the United Kingdom and works closely with Lord Stern at the LSE where he is a senior visiting fellow at the Grantham Institute on Climate Change.
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