Leveling the Carbon Playing Field: International Competition and US Climate Policy Design - Softcover

A scholarly and educated examination of the oil industry and how American policy affects both the oil trade and related environmental issues. Packed with smart ideas and advice...--Midwest Book Review

Trevor Houser, visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics during 2009-15, is partner at the Rhodium Group, where he leads the firm's energy and natural resources practice. He also codirects the Climate Impact Lab, a collaboration of leading research institutions combining climate, economic, and data science to quantify the risks climate change presents. During 2009, he served as senior advisor to the US State Department, where he worked on a broad range of international energy and environmental policy issues.

Rob Bradley is director of the International Climate Policy Institute Initiative at the World Resources Institute (WRI). He has published research on international climate agreements, emissions trading, biofuels, rural electrification, adaptation, forests and climate and developing country policies. Before joining WRI, he worked on European and international climate and energy policy and was a member of the working group to design the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.

Britt Childs is a research analyst with the international climate policy team at the World Resources Institute.

Jacob Werksman is an international lawyer specializing in environmental and economic law, and directs the Institutions an dGovernance Program at WRI. He served as associate director inthe Global Inclusion Program of the Reckefeller Foundation. From 2002 to 2004, he was environmental institutions and and governance adviser to the United Nations Development Programme in New York.

Robert Heolmayr is a research assistant at WRI. His work focuses on federal climate change policy and corporate deployent of renewable energy. As part of the Green Power Market Development Group, he draws on his experience in the private sector to develop innovative green power products and strategies for corporate consumers.