The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is a Canadian-based not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote change towards sustainable development. As of 2007, IISD employed 150 people located in more than 30 countries, and partnered with more than 200 organizations throughout the world. Is efforts are focused on research, commentary, communication and outreach on a range of topics related to sustainable development. Principal areas of focus include Climate Chan ... (Full Bio)

Gørild Heggelund is Director of the Global Program and Senior Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. Her main research areas are China’s energy and climate, and environmental policy in general. Heggelund participated recently in the OECD Environmental Performance Review (EPR) of China (to be published in 2007). She is currently carrying out research on China’s climate change policy-making including the developments of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto ... (Full Bio)

Alan Meier is Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States. Dr. Meier earned degrees in chemistry, economics and a Ph.D. in energy and resources. Most of his research has dealt with understanding how energy is used and how it could be used more efficiently. His work relies heavily on field measurements of the energy use of buildings and equipment. About a decade ago, he began to study the energy consumption of “miscellaneous” equipment and, more recently, the ... (Full Bio)

Stephanie Ohshita is Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Management at the University of San Francisco (USF). Her research centers on energy-based solutions to multiple environmental problems—from local air pollution to global climate change—and combines engineering with tools from political economy and organizational theory. She has specialized in energy and environmental issues in Japan and China, examining cleaner energy technology cooperation between the two countries, as we ... (Full Bio)

Jonathan Sinton is China Program Manager at the International Energy Agency’s Office of Non-Member Countries. Before joining the IEA, he was a long-time member of the China Energy Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he engaged in wide-ranging research on energy supply and demand policy—much of it in collaboration with colleagues in China—as well as compilation, evaluation, and analysis of energy and economic data. In addition to macro-level topics, he has also investi ... (Full Bio)

Taishi Sugiyama is the Leader of the Climate Policy Project at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Japan. He serves as a lead author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. He serves as a member of the Future Framework Committee that made recommendations on a post-2012 framework to the Japanese government, as well as a member of the Market Mechanisms Committee of the Japanese government. He also served on the Small Scale Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Panel of th ... (Full Bio)

Stephen Wiel is currently the President of the Board of the Collaborative Labeling and Standards Program (CLASP). He previously served as Head of the Energy Analysis Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where he also established LBNL’s Washington Office; led the greenhouse gas mitigation component of the U.S. Country Studies Program; served as senior advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy on integrated resource planning and demand-side management in the utility sector; ... (Full Bio)