Peter is a Staff Scientist in the Climate and Energy program in the SEI-U.S. Seattle office.

His research focuses on climate change policy, with particular interests in the role of offsets in cap-and-trade programs, contribution of consumption and behavior change to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, industrial policy, and cities.

Current or recent projects include the development of a greenhouse gas tracking framework for a major U.S. metropolitan area (Seattle); a study on the quality and quantity of potential greenhouse gas offsets in the United States; a study on the role of international offsets in global climate mitigation; and a long-term emission reduction scenario for sustainable consumption and production in the United States.

Peter joined SEI in 2008 after 8 years consulting on environmental issues for cities and states throughout the United States. He received a B.A. from Carleton College in 1998, with a major in geology and extensive studies in mathematics.

Publications

• A core framework and scenario for deep GHG reductions at the city scale (Journal article - 2013)

• International Trade and Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Could Shifting the Location of Production Bring GHG benefits? (Project report - 2013)

• International Trade and Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Could Shifting the Location of Production Bring GHG benefits? (policy brief) (Policy brief - 2013)

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

• Driving Technological Innovation for a Low-Carbon Society: Case Studies for Solar Photovoltaics and Carbon Capture and Storage (Research report - 2012)

• A Consumption-Based GHG Inventory for the U.S. State of Oregon (Journal article - 2012)

• Low-Greenhouse-Gas Consumption Strategies and Impacts on Developing Countries (Working paper - 2012)

• Low-Greenhouse-Gas Consumption Strategies and Impacts on Developing Countries (Policy brief) (Policy brief - 2012)

• Revisiting Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Inventories (Journal article - 2012)

• Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with Consumption: A Methodology for Scenario Analysis (Working paper - 2012)

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Projects

• Promoting Low Carbon Development in the Cape Town Central City Development Strategy

  
  

• World Bank Workshop on Low-Carbon Cities

  
  

• Methodology for Scenario Analyses of Low-GHG Consumption

  
  

• C40: Emissions Abatement Potential of Global Megacities

  
  

• CDM Policy Dialogue: Analyzing the Net Emissions Impact of the CDM

  
  

• SEI-FBDS Rio+20 Energy Assessment

  
  

• Opportunities for Standardisation of International Offset Mechanisms

  
  

• Study on the Integrity of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)

  
  

• Scenarios for a Climate Neutral Seattle

  
  

• 3C - Enabling the development of technologies required to reach a low-carbon economy

  
  

• Emissions from the Six Largest Developing Countries