Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation

A while back, I was invited by Professor Wei-Yin Chen to contribute a chapter about emissions trading for his comprehensive, four-volume Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation — and his arduous efforts have finally reached fruition. The work is now available from Springer, for the modest (given the effort involved!) sum of $1350 (& a bit less expensive on Amazon.com).

Wei-Yin is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Mississippi, and does cutting edge research on combustion reactions and control, addressing both NOx and CO2 emissions. I first met him several years ago in China, when we were both delegates at the Sino-American Technology and Engineering Conference in Beijing in late 2006. (You can see him and his lovely wife Tsuei-Ju in the picture on my Nov. 2006 posting, standing in the second row, fifth and fourth from the right, respectively, over my right shoulder). Wei-Yin is currently on sabbatical at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou (absolutely one of my favorite Chinese cities!), so I certainly envy him that — & he definitely deserves a break after all that work!

Luckily, my own chapter efforts received a tremendous amount of help from my co-author, Ms. Sudha Iyer. If you have a great memory, you might remember that Sudha and I previously worked together on a UN project addressing energy system integration in Asian cities (noted in a July 2009 posting). Sudha has now graduated from Penn, and runs her own company, Cerebronics, LLC, based in Princeton, NJ. She has been spending a lot of time in Europe over the past year on project work, but never let our joint effort lag… so I’ve been particularly appreciative. It was really great to work with her once again, & I certainly look forward to other collaborations in the future!