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Katherine Blumberg

Katherine Blumberg

Program Director
kate@theicct.org
Works out of: San Francisco, CA
Started w/ ICCT in: 2005

Background
Katherine Blumberg is the Director of Climate and Health Programs and the Mexico Country Lead at the ICCT. Ms. Blumberg has worked with the ICCT since its inception, supporting improved fuel and vehicle regulatory efforts primarily in China, India and Mexico. She is currently focusing on Mexico, both supporting development of light- and heavy-duty fuel economy/GHG standards and moving to world-class conventional pollutant standards. In addition, her ongoing work supports better integration of climate and health science, policy efforts on non-CO2 climate forcers (such as black carbon and f-gases) from the transportation sector, and development of a transportation roadmap to get to dramatically reduced conventional and climate pollutant emissions. Ms. Blumberg holds an M.S. in Energy and Resources and an M.S. in Engineering, with a focus on Air Quality, both from the University of California, Berkeley.

Recent Work

  • Global transportation energy and climate roadmap

    Report

    2012.12.01

    Evaluates the historical and potential impact of transportation policies on global oil consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

  • Overview of China's vehicle emission control program

    Report

    2011.04.07

    A wide-ranging analysis of vehicle emissions control policies in China, evaluating successes to date and assessing potential for new vehicle and fuel standards, compliance monitoring, and impacts of advanced technologies and fuels.

  • Costs and Benefits of Reduced Sulfur Fuels in China

    White paper

    2006.12.29

    Use of high-sulfur fuels increases emissions and can cause important pollution control devices to fail. This analysis by ICCT and Tsinghua University found that a combination of fuel and vehicle standards will allow 1.5 million premature deaths to be avoided over 22 years, including 20,000 infant mortalities.

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