He has more than 20 years’ experience designing, building and using analysis models and information systems for a wide range of applications, from business intelligence and decision support systems, to public policy.

Prior to joining the SEI energy modeling team, he worked with the Climate Economics Group, which was dissolved in September 2012. There, his recent projects focused on two new models: CRED (Climate and the Regional Economics of Development), which connects climate policy and global equity concerns; and CBEI (Consumption-Based Emissions Inventory), which looks at the impact of consumer choices on climate change.

Bueno also does computer modeling for various SEI-US Climate Economics Group projects, and he co-authored Fat Tails, Exponents, and Extreme Uncertainty: Simulating Catastrophe in DICE (SEI Working Paper, 2009, with Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton), and The Caribbean and Climate Change: The Cost of Inaction (2008, with Cornelia Herzfeld, Elizabeth A. Stanton and Frank Ackerman), a report commissioned by the Environmental Defense Fund that he also translated into Spanish.

Prior to joining SEI, Bueno worked as a business analyst and software developer/architect in Cambridge, Mass., for 22 years. Born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico, Bueno is fluent in English and Spanish and is a close observer of U.S.-Cuba relations, the Caribbean and Latin America.

Publications

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions in King County (Report - 2012)

• Epstein-Zin utility in DICE: Is risk aversion irrelevant to climate policy? (Working paper - 2012)

• Reason, Empathy, and Fair Play: The Climate Policy Gap (Working paper - 2012)

• Reason, Empathy, and Fair Play: the Climate Policy Gap (Discussion Brief) (Discussion Brief - 2012)

• CRED v.1.4 Technical Report (Report - 2012)

• Climate policy and development: an economic analysis (Working paper - 2012)

• Casting DICE for 350 ppm (Paper - 2011)

• Use of McKinsey abatement cost curves for climate economics modeling (Paper - 2011)

• Estimating Regions’ Relative Vulnerability to Climate Damages in the CRED Model (Paper - 2011)

• Comparing climate strategies: Economic optimization versus equitable burden-sharing (Paper - 2011)

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Projects

• Revision and update of elements of Mexico's Low Emissions Development Strategy

  
  

• Modelling Risk in Climate Economics

  
  

• Climate and Regional Economics of Development (CRED)

  
  

• The Social Cost of Carbon

  
  

• San Francisco Consumption-Based Emissions Inventory (CBEI)

  
  

• Development Without Carbon

  
  

• Climate Impact Equity Lens (CIEL)

  
  

• Downscaling the CRED Model: Climate Impacts and Economic Development at the Sub-Regional Level

  
  

• Distribution of Carbon Emissions by State

  
  

• The socio-economic impact of climate change in Armenia

  
  

• Climate and Development Model

  
  

• A Consumer's Guide to Environmental Protection

  
  

• Climate Change: The Costs of Inaction in the Caribbean region