Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries: Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey

About the Authors

William Chandler, Battelle Memorial Institute

William Chandler has worked for 30 years in energy and environmental policy, and is currently Senior Staff Scientist and Director of Advanced International Studies at Battelle Memorial Institute's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He also serves as adjunct professor at John Hopkins University. He has authored or co-authored ten books including his latest book, Energy and Environment in the Transition Economies, and has published in both technical and popular journals, including Climatic Change and Scientific American. He has testified on energy and security issues several times in the U.S. Congress and served as a member of the international energy panel of the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology during the Clinton Administration.

Mr. Chandler received the 1992 Champion of Energy-Efficiency Award from the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy for his work. In 1999, he received the first Global Climate Leadership Award from the International Energy Agency. He holds a B.S. from the University of Tennessee, and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University.

Roberto Schaeffer, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Roberto Schaeffer is Professor of Energy Economics and Technology and Vice-Chair of the Energy Planning Program, Graduate School of Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Professor Schaeffer is also an associate editor of Energy-The International Journal and a member of the METH Expert Panel of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). He was also one of the lead authors of the recent IPCC Special Report on Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer. His research interests include energy efficiency, industrial ecology and climate change issues.

Professor Schaeffer holds a Ph.D. in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters degree in Energy Planning from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Parana, Brazil.

Zhou Dadi, China Energy Research Institute

Zhou Dadi is founding director of the Beijing Energy Efficiency Center and director of China's Energy Research Institute. He has 20 years experience in energy efficiency in China, and is well known nationally and internationally in energy and environmental policy analysis. Mr. Zhou was instrumental in developing the $200 million World Bank/GEF loan for energy efficiency service companies in China, and is deputy director for the $65 million China Green Lights program. He is also the lead representative from China to the IPCC and Chief Scientist of the Expert Team of the China Working Group III as well as the Chief Scientist in charge of the emission inventory for preparation of the First National Communication to the Framework Convention. Mr. Zhou was the lead author of IPCC Working Group III for the Second and Third Assessment Reports, and the lead author of the Special Report of Emission Scenarios of IPCC.

Mr. Zhou holds physics and engineering degrees from Tsinghua University in Beijing.

P.R. Shukla, Indian Institute of Management

P.R. Shukla is a Professor and Chairman of the Public Systems Group at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. He has been a lead author of several IPCC reports including the Report on Technology Transfer, Special Report on Emissions Scenarios and the Third Assessment Report (Working Group III). He is a consultant and advisor to Government of India and numerous international organizations. He has co-authored nine books and numerous publications in international journals in the areas of energy and environment term modeling and policy analysis.

Professor Shukla holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Fernando Tudela, El Colegio de Mexico

Fernando Tudela is a researcher and Coordinator of the Water, Environment and Society Program at "El Colegio de Mexico." He served as Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Climate Change in Mexico from 1997-2000 and as a Mexican negotiator to the Framework Convention. He has also served as Chief of Staff at the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources of the Mexican Federal Government, and as a professor at various academic institutions including Metropolitan Autonomous University and the Iberoamerican University both in Mexico City. Dr. Tudela worked as a UN Officer on Human Settlements and served as a consultant to various UN organizations.

Dr. Tudela has also served as Honorary Research Fellow at the Portsmouth Polytechnic, University College of London (School of Environmental Studies). Dr. Tudela has authored numerous articles and books on the environment, appropriate technologies, human settlements, and climate change. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Seville, Spain and degree in architecture from the Universities of Madrid and Seville.

Ogunlade Davidson, University of Cape Town

Ogunlade Davidson is Professor of Engineering and Director of Energy & Development Research Centre, University of Cape Town, and also the Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC. Before joining the University of Cape Town, he worked at the University of Sierra Leone for over 22 years where he served in different capacities, including Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Head of Department of Mechanical and Maintenance Engineering, and the first Director of Research of the University. His research interests include development of African energy systems (transportation, renewable energy & power), energy policy studies, and climate change studies (greenhouse gas inventories, mitigation options, national strategies). His recent projects include: energy policy development for Lesotho and Swaziland, advising various African governments on climate change policy, and a comprehensive evaluation of the Global Environmental Facility.

Professor Davidson has a BEng (Sierra Leone), MSc (Manchester), PhD (Salford), CEng, MintE.

Sema Alpan-Atamer, Med-Consult, Turkey

Sema Alpan-Atamer is a consultant at MedConsult Ltd. in Ankara, Turkey and lectures as a part-time instructor at the Environmental Engineering Department of the Middle East Technical University. She was awarded a research position at Katholieke Universiteet Leuven in Belgium for studies on sewage treatment; and as a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on environmental planning. She worked as a project engineer in SUMERBANK, one of the largest government enterprises. For 5 years she also served as a researcher in the Turkish National Council for Scientific Technical Research. Most of her environment and development experience was acquired while working in the State Planning Organization under the Prime Minister's Office, where she was in charge of analyzing and suggesting national environmental policies for the national 5-year Development Plans and allocating resources for the public environment projects in National Annual Investment Programs. She served as part of the Turkish delegation to the IPCC, COPs and SBSTA. She managed the Project for the preparation of the National Environmental Action Plan, which was financed by the World Bank.

Ms. Alpan-Atamer received degrees in chemical engineering and a Masters of Science in Environmental Engineering in the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.

Co-Authors

Thomas J. Secrest
Jeffrey Logan
Battelle Memorial Institute

Alexandre Salem Szklo
Marcio Edgar Schuler
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Zhang Kejun
Zhu Yuezhong
Xu Huaqing
China Energy Research Institute

Stanford Mwakasonda
Randal-Spalding Fecher
Pierre Mukheibir
Harald Winkler
University of Cape Town