Dr. Rose is a Principal Research Economist and Senior Technical Executive in the Energy Systems and Climate Analysis Research Group. His research focuses on long-term modeling of socioeconomic system transitions, climate change drivers and management, and potential climate risks.
Steve research on global change and corporate climate-related risk includes physical and transition climate risk assessment and strategy development. Among other things, this includes leading EPRI’s SMARTargets Initiative that is creating a new methodology to help companies evaluate and communicate economy-wide transition opportunities and risks, including related to data centers and AI. With SMARTargets, companies identify ambitious and actionable climate strategies aligned with science and international goals that consider the implications for sets of social priorities, including affordability, reliability, and sustainability.
Steve also leads EPRI’s Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases Scientific Initiative that is facilitating the development of scientifically reliable estimates and applications for the social costs of carbon and other greenhouse gases (GHG) and the regulatory cost of GHGs.
Steve has served on numerous expert panels, including for the U.S. National Academies of Sciences Social Cost of Carbon Committee, the Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Advisory Group, the U.S. EPA’s Science Advisory Board, the Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, and the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium. Steve was a lead author for the IPCC’s last three assessment reports, where he assessed climate resilient development, climate damages, and societal transitions. Steve has a PhD in economics from Cornell and is a 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Publications
- [1] Rose, S, 2026. Assessment of Newer Global Emissions Scenarios for Corporate Climate Transition Risk and Target Setting Applications. EPRI: Palo Alto, CA. 3002034775.
- [2] Rose, S, 2026. Developing Meaningful Corporate Climate Transition Risk and Risk Management Metrics: A Framework and Path Forward. EPRI: Palo Alto, CA. 3002034279.
- [3] Morris, J*, Rose, SK*, Reilly, J, A Gurgel, S Paltsev, A Schlosser, 2025. Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change. Nature Climate Change 15: 124–127.
- [4] van Vuuren, D, ..., SK Rose, et al., 2025. The Scenario Model Intercomparison Project for CMIP7 (ScenarioMIP-CMIP7). EGUsphere [preprint].
- [5] Rose, S, 2025. Net-Zero Climate Targets are Not for Everyone. EPRI: Palo Alto, CA. 3002032318.
- [6] Rose, S, 2022. Putting science first in creating and using the social cost of carbon, The Hill, November 18, thehill.com.
- [7] Bistline, J, M Browning, J DeAngelo, D Huppmann, R Jones, J McFarland, A Molar-Cruz, S Rose, SJ Davis, 2024. Uses and Limits of National Decarbonization Scenarios to Inform Net-Zero Transitions. Joule 8(10): 2721-2726.