Nathaniel Aden

Nathaniel Aden researches topics related to energy efficiency in China. As a Senior Research Associate with the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) China Energy Group, Nathaniel investigates the links between energy efficiency performance, government policy, and environmental impacts of energy consumption. Recent projects have included analyses of China’s energy-related carbon emissions, dynamics of coal industry growth, scenarios for China’s low-carbon development to 2025, metrics for quantifying steel industry energy efficiency, and methodologies for estimating the carbon embodiment of traded goods. Prior to LBNL, Nathaniel lived and worked in China and Southeast Asia for more than ten years.

In the News:

• David Fridley and Nate Aden in “Urban Form, Behavior Energy Modeling in China: Sim City for Real?”, Worldchanging, February 16, 2010

Additional Information:

• Nathaniel Aden’s homepage

Publications:

• “How Can China Lighten Up? Urbanization, Industrialization and Energy Demand Scenarios,” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Global Carbon Emissions in the Coming Decades: The Case of China
• “China’s Coal: Demand, Constraints, and Externalities,” July 2009, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory