Meghdad Rahimian is a Ph.D. student in economics at the University of Western, where his research focus is on carbon clean-up of industries. His second-year paper was on "the effect of public climate change agreement on the carbon clean-up of the US electric generation industry." Meghdad is working on an EEPRN research project entitled “Decomposing the Carbon CleanUp of Canadian Manufacturing,” under the supervision of Nouri Najjar.