Michael directs the Seattle office of SEI-US. His current research focuses on energy and international climate change policy, and on state and local energy and climate change initiatives within the US.

He brings over 20 years of professional experience in energy and environmental analysis and capacity building. He has worked throughout North America, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe with support from government agencies, development banks, foundations, utilities, and non-profit groups.

From 2002 to 2007, he was a member of the Methodologies Panel of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), the project-based emission reduction trading program of the Kyoto Protocol. During the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a visiting researcher at the Energy Policy and Economics Institute at the University of Grenoble, France.

Michael received an M.S. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.

Publications

• Assessing the Climate Impacts of Cookstove Projects: Issues in Emissions Accounting (Working paper - 2013)

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

• Assessing the Climate Impacts of Cookstove Projects: Issues in Emissions Accounting (policy brief) (Policy brief - 2013)

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

• Risks of, and Responses to, the New Fossil Fuel Economy (Fact sheet - 2013)

• A ton is not always a ton: A road-test of landfill, manure, and afforestation/reforestation offset protocols in the U.S. carbon market (Journal article - 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)

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

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Projects

• Risks of, and responses to, the new fossil fuel economy

  
  

• Methodology for Scenario Analyses of Low-GHG Consumption

  
  

• C40: Emissions Abatement Potential of Global Megacities

  
  

• Revising GEF’s GHG Methodology for Energy Efficiency Projects

  
  

• Fixing Critical Accounting Gaps in Bioenergy

  
  

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

  
  

• A tool for better understanding the climate impacts of energy production from woody biomass

  
  

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

  
  

• Improving Energy Access in a Changing Climate

  
  

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

  
  

• Linking Technology Development with Commitments: a Post-Kyoto Framework

  
  

• Hydrogen in the Sahel

  
  

• Supporting the Clean Development Mechanism

  
  

• Design to Win: Prioritizing worldwide philanthropic investment strategies to solve global warming

  
  

• Emissions from the Six Largest Developing Countries

  
  

• Evaluation of Alternative Policy Approaches to Achieving GHG Mitigation in the Agricultural and Forestry Sectors

  
  

• Technical Advisory Services to New York/ New Jersey Port Authority

  
  

• Washington State Climate Action Team

  
  

• Western Climate Initiative (WCI)

  
  

• US State and Regional Climate Change Advisory Group Processes

  
  

• Global Scenarios Group

  
  

• U.S. State and Regional Climate Change Processes

  
  

• Turning the Corner on Global Warming Emissions: Ten Strategies for California, Oregon & Washington

  
  

• Towards a Fossil Free Energy Future

  
  

• Support to the Western Climate Initiative

  
  

• State and Regional Climate Change Advisory Group Processes

  
  

• Seattle Climate Action Plan

  
  

• National Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Studies

  
  

• Multi-Stakeholder GHG Action Plan for Rhode Island

  
  

• Linking Technology Development with Emissions Commitments in a Post-2012 Climate Framework

  
  

• Linking Technology Development with Emissions Commitments

  
  

• Climate Neutral Bioregion

  
  

• Climate Change Courses

  
  

• Carbon Offset Programs: Design, Review and Assessment

  
  

• California Leadership Strategies to Reduce Global Warming Emissions

  
  

• An Integrated Renewable Energy Programme for Zimbabwe

  
  

• Americas Energy Choices