Richard Rosenzweig, Chief Operating Officer of Natsource (Washington, DC), is responsible for the company’s global Advisory Services and Research business unit.  He provides services to private firms, investment funds, governments, and international financial institutions on all aspects of climate change and renewable energy, including risk assessment and management, market entry strategies, trading system design, domestic policy development and international negotiations.  Mr. Rosenzweig has extensive experience in all aspects of emissions trading and risk management.  He represented several companies in the design of the U.S. Acid Rain and NOx SIP Call Programs.  Mr. Rosenzweig was involved in the first transaction of UK and Danish greenhouse gas allowances.  He joined Natsource from the Washington law firm of Van Ness Feldman, where he was Principal.  

Mr. Rosenzweig served as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) from 1993-1996.  His national policy responsibilities included the development and coordination of DOE strategy related to global climate change.  He played key roles in developing the Clinton Administration’s Climate Change Action Plan, which incorporated the first project-based mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and the Secretary of Energy’s international energy, environmental, and national security initiatives.  He also helped to negotiate voluntary agreements between DOE and more than 600 electric utilities to achieve voluntary greenhouse gas reductions in the “Climate Challenge” program.  Mr. Rosenzweig has written extensively on the greenhouse gas market, the impacts of trading system design, and the role of technology in addressing climate change.  He has a BA degree from Northeastern University and an MS degree from American University in Political Science.