Legal Aspects of Carbon Trading Kyoto, Copenhagen and Beyond

Edited by David Freestone, Lobingier Visiting Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence, George Washington University Law School, Washington DC, and Charlotte Streck, Founding partner and director of Climate Focus

David Freestone is the Lobingier Visiting Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at The George Washington University Law School in Washington D.C. He is a former Deputy General Counsel at the World Bank, and a Visiting Professor at the UN University Institute of Advanced Studies. From 1996-2004 he was head of the World Bank's Environment and International Law Group, and, inter alia, legal adviser to the World Bank Prototype Carbon Fund team. Prior to joining the Bank in 1996, he held a faculty chair in international law at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom, where he is still an honorary professor. Dr. Freestone has written widely on international environmental law, is the General Editor of the <"Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development>" a monograph series published by Martinus Nijhoff and is the founding editor of the <"International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law.>" He is the 2007 winner of the Elizabeth Haub Gold Medal for Environmental Law.

Charlotte Streck is a founding partner and Director of Climate Focus, a consultancy company specialized in climate change law and policy and the global carbon market. Until February 2005, Charlotte was Senior Counsel with the World Bank in Washington, DC. In this capacity she was responsible for establishing carbon funds and legal structuring of World Bank carbon transactions in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia. Before she joined the World Bank in 2000, she cooperated with the <"Global Public Policy Project>", which provided strategic advice for the Secretary General of the UN. She authored and co-authored several books and numerous articles on environmental law and policy, is a board member of the Global Public Policy Institute, an adjunct lecturer at the University of Potsdam, senior fellow of the Center of International Sustainable Development Law at McGill University, and an Advisor to the Prince of Wales Rainforest Project.

Contributors: 

Michael Barrett, Bennett Jones LLP
Thiago Chagas, Climate Focus
Claybourne Fox Clarke, attorney, Washington DC
Allan Cook, formerly of the IASB
Marie-Claire Cordonnier Segger, CISDL Canada
Michael Coren, Climate Focus, North America
Jos Cozijnsen, consulting attorney on emissions trading
Kyle Danish, Van Ness Feldman P.C.
Louisa Fitz-Gerald, Baker & McKenzie
Markus Gehring, University of Cambridge
Navraj Ghaleigh, University of Edinburgh
Andrew Hedges, Norton Rose LLP
Anthony Hobley, Norton Rose LLP
Jelmer Hoogzaad, Climate Focus
Lauren Hopkins, Beveridge & Diamond P.C.
Matthias Krey, Perspectives
K Russel LaMotte, Beveridge & Diamond P.C.
Jolene Lin, University of Hong Kong
Michael Mehling, Ecologic Institute Washtington DC
Axel Michaelowa, Perspectives
Maria Netto, United Nations Development Programme
Robert O'Sullivan, Climate Focus North America
Michelle Passero, The Nature Conservancy
Markus Pohlman, The World Bank
Carly Roberts, Norton Rose LLP
Heike Santen, Vattenfall Carbon Fund
Kai-Uwe Schmidt, Climate Change Support Team
Sander Simonetti, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Gray Taylor, Bennett Jones LLP
Christopher Tung, Mallessons Stephen Jaques
Christina Voigt, University of Oslo
Murray Ward, Global Climate Change Consultancy
Matthieu Wemaere, Climate Focus
Martijn Wilder, Baker & McKenzie
David M Williamson, Andrews Kurth LLP
Rutger de Witt Wijnen, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek