Jim McFarland

Jim McFarland is a senior economist within the U.S. EPA's Climate Change Division in the Climate Economics Branch. His work includes the analysis of GHG mitigation policies and the economic impacts of climate change. He collaborated with the U.S. State Department and White House on analysis leading to influential papers (“Can Paris pledges avert severe climate change?”,  “Can updated climate pledges limit warming well below 2°C?) and the development of long-term emissions strategies ( U.S. Midcentury Strategy and Long-Term Strategy of the United States). Jim has been extensively involved with the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum (EMF), co-chairing the EMF 32 and 37 model intercomparison projects on carbon taxes and deep decarbonization scenarios respectively. Jim completed his undergraduate work in chemical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and his graduate work in the Engineering Systems at MIT. Prior to joining EPA, he worked in R&D at the Procter and Gamble Company, from which he holds multiple patents, and at IHS CERA. 

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