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David Burwell
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Energy and Climate Program

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David Burwell is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment.

David Burwell focused on the intersection between energy, transportation, and climate issues, as well as policies and practice reforms to reduce global dependence on fossil fuels.

Before joining Carnegie, he was a principal in the BBG Group, a transportation consulting firm that addresses climate, energy, and sustainable transportation policy with a particular focus on how climate and transportation policies can be better coordinated to promote sustainable development and successful communities. During his career, he served as co-founder and CEO of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and as founding co-chair and president of the Surface Transportation Policy Project, a national coalition for reforming transportation policy. A lawyer by training, he also worked for the National Wildlife Federation as director of its Transportation and Infrastructure Program.

He has served on the executive committee of the National Research Council’s Transportation Research Board (1992–1998) and is presently on the Board of Advisers of the Institute for Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. He served in the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa.


education
JD, University of Virginia, BA, Dartmouth College
languages
English

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In the Media
Breaking the Oil-Transport Gridlock

Policies promoting the transition to low-carbon-vehicle technology will help achieve global climate goals at negligible cost to oil consumers.

· May 30, 2016
Medium
In the Media
Arctic Withdrawal?

The challenges of drilling for oil in the Arctic can be summed up in two words: timing and risk. It now seems that these two factors are driving companies elsewhere.

· February 12, 2014
Huffington Post
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United States Joins Push for Transparency in Extractive Industries
January 31, 2014

The illicit capture of revenues from extractive industries continues to have a significant impact in countries around the world, including as a driver of international security.

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  • David Burwell
  • Carlos Pascual
  • Clare Short
  • Daniel Kaufmann
  • Debra Valentine
  • Faith Nwadishi
  • Gbegzohngar Findley
  • Sarah Chayes
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The Politics of Plenty: Balancing Climate and Energy Security

Unless Washington enacts a plan to simultaneously advance its competing energy and climate security objectives, it risks squandering the benefits of its new resources and suffering the disastrous effects of climate change.

· November 6, 2013
In the Media
Beijing: The City of Long Distances

Redesigning Beijing’s transportation system could allow its inhabitants reduce car traffic and improve their own quality of life.

· October 1, 2013
Rockefeller Foundation
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IEA Report Launch: Redrawing the Energy-Climate Map
June 21, 2013

The International Energy Agency's special report, Redrawing the Energy-Climate Map, seeks to bring climate change back into the spotlight and provide analysis and insights intended to support great climate action by all nations.

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  • Fatih Birol
  • David Burwell
  • Daniel Poneman
  • Andrew Steer
  • Polly Trottenberg
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Transport Beyond Oil
March 22, 2013

Seventy percent of the oil America uses each year is consumed by transportation. Any effective strategy to meet U.S. and global climate protection goals therefore requires that oil consumption in the transport sector be significantly reduced.

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  • Heather Boyer
  • Deborah Gordon
  • John Renne
  • Billy Fields
  • Deron Lovaas
  • Joanne Potter
  • Kevin Mills
  • Tony Hull
  • David Burwell
  • Kevin DeGood
In the Media
Transportation Energy Taxes Are Well Worth a Try

Transportation energy taxes, when applied along the supply chain, can better allocate the costs of burning fuels, encourage efficiency, raise money for the U.S. transportation system, and help the planet.

· March 12, 2013
Hill
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U.S.-China Coal Value Chain Exchange Conference
March 7, 2013

China and the United States are the world’s two largest coal producing economies and account together for more than 60 percent of global coal consumption.

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The Next Generation of Russian Oil: Will the Future Be Unconventional?
January 24, 2013

It remains to be seen whether Russia will continue to give high priority to Arctic oil development if the tight-oil revolution from North America spreads quickly to Russia, driving a renaissance of West Siberia.