William Chandler is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment.
William Chandler is a leading expert on energy and climate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. As an adjunct senior associate in the Energy and Climate Program he supports Carnegie’s work in these fields, collaborating closely on projects with Carnegie’s offices in Moscow, Beijing, Brussels, and Beirut.
Prior to joining the Carnegie Endowment, Chandler spent 35 years working in energy and environmental policy. He is president of Transition Energy and co-founder of DEED China—private companies with energy efficiency investments in China. He is founder and former director of Advanced International Studies at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), where he was senior staff scientist and laboratory fellow. Chandler has been adjunct professor of international relations in energy and environment at the Johns Hopkins University since 1992. He served as a member of the international energy panel of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and was a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
He is the author of numerous books on energy, climate, and environmental conservation and his articles have been widely published in both technical and popular journals. He has appeared on national radio and television, and testified frequently on energy and security issues before the U.S. Congress.
Chandler received the 1992 Champion of Energy-Efficiency Award from the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy for his work. In 1999, he received the first Global Climate Leadership Award from the International Energy Agency.
China has claimed success on its ambitious targets to reduce growth in energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. As these achievements come under increasing scrutiny, China can improve its data quality by applying lessons learned from previous economic census results.
China’s economy is undergoing significant change, in large part due to the rapid growth of its high-tech industry. As the country has expanded its efforts to accurately report GDP data, a series of revisions to data from prior years has also affected estimates of its energy efficiency.
With only a short time left before President Obama arrives to hash out major differences between developed and developing countries, the prospects for a climate change deal in Copenhagen look increasingly bleak.
Criticism of China’s pledge to reduce its carbon intensity by 45 percent by 2020 is ill-founded; it only serves to provide cover for U.S. opponents to climate change action, and risks blocking effective progress.
No global agreement can prevent the catastrophic effects of climate change without cooperation from the world’s two largest emitters: The U.S. and China. A U.S.-China agreement on climate change is now within reach.
Thanks to the hard work of leaders and specialists in both countries, a U.S.-China climate deal is now within reach.
India's ambitious National Action Plan on Climate Change seeks to develop strategies for scaling up solar power, energy efficiency and switching to sustainable agriculture. U.S. collaboration and cooperation are key to achieving these goals.
President Obama can avoid being labeled the greatest socialist in American history by selling or completely revamping the Tennessee Valley Authority to make it a force for more-efficient energy use, better jobs, and a low-carbon future.
Carnegie’s William Chandler and Zhou Dadi discussed how to break the US-China “suicide pact” of self-destructive, energy-using behavior during a May 8, 2008 discussion at the Carnegie Endowment.
Director of the Carnegie Energy and Climate Program, William Chandler, shares his thoughts on some of the most pressing environmental issues facing the international community.
