Strategic Partners

Charlotte Streck - Climate Focus

Charlotte Streck, director of Climate Focus B.V., Rotterdam, provides services to public and private entities active in the international carbon market. She is an international expert in developing and structuring projects mitigating greenhouse gas reductions (carbon finance transactions, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation). She advises on the regulatory framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and the European Emissions Trading Scheme. She has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating complex carbon agreements, related, among others, to the establishment of carbon funds, the implementation of projects, or the contracting of intermediaries.

Before founding Climate Focus, Charlotte worked for five years as senior counsel with the World Bank in Washington, DC. In her work at the World Bank she specialized in providing advice on emissions trading operations and on questions related to the UNFCCC/Kyoto Protocol. She is a founding and board member of the ‘Global Public Policy Institute’ and authored and co-authored several books and a series of articles on environmental governance, law and policy.
 
Languages: German, English, Spanish, French

Adriaan Korthuis - Climate Focus

Adriaan Korthuis, director of Climate Focus, is an authority in questions relating to the design and implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, with a particular focus on Joint Implementation and the Clean Development Mechanism. Adriaan was initiator and programme manager of the ERUPT and CERUPT programmes of the Dutch government agency Senter. He has an extensive network in the carbon business and is a strong communicator who persuades from his own passion and enthusiasm.

Languages: English, Dutch, Portuguese

Jean Bogner, PhD - Landfills +, Inc.

Jean Bogner, PhD, president of Landfills +, Inc., is a specialist in geoenvironmental projects with emphasis on landfilling and landfill gas. She offers more than 30 years experience in commercial landfill gas recovery, applied field and laboratory research on landfill processes, field measurement of landfill gas migration and emissions, global climate change and carbon credits aspects of landfill methane and other landfill gases, implementation of landfill biocovers to optimize methane oxidation, and diverse types of geohydorlogic investigations at contaminated and pristine sites.

With a project portfolio encompassing the United States, South Africa, the UK, France, Australia, Egypt, and New Zealand, she has an established network of international clients, contacts and contracts for specialized projects on all aspects of landfilling and landfill gas. Previously employed at Argonne National Laboratory (Illinois) for more than 20 years, she was the U.S. Department of Energy representation to the International Energy Agency (IEA) expert working group on landfill gas and has served on International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC)/International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) committees related to surface-atmosphere exchange of trace gases and on IEA/OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)/IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) committees revising IPCC protocols for methane emissions from solid waste disposal.

Languages: English, French

Mallinicks Attorneys

Mallinicks is a corporate law firm based in Cape Town, South Africa that offers a wide range of services to financial, commercial, industrial and individual clients. They have the experience and resources to respond swiftly to virtually any legal problem. At the same time, Mallinicks has developed skills and specialist knowledge in areas such as internet law, local government legislative reform and privatization of local authority function, competition law and empowerment transactions.

Mallinikcs' public law department has been involved in CDM projects and advises public sector entities on local government legislation and its impacts of the CDM project developments process.

While Mallinicks has the skills and resources to answer a diverse range of legal problems, Mallinicks has developed unique skills and specialist knowledge in certain areas of law. Since South Africa re-entered the international arena in the mid-nineties they have, for example, developed an in-depth knowledge of laws relating to complex international transactions and the tourist boom in the Cape has brought opportunities in multifaceted international commercial property matters.

Palmer Development Group

Palmer Development Group is a South African consulting and research company specializing in public-sector development-related issues. A multi-disciplinary group with expertise is economics/finance, engineering/planning and management, they assist municipalities in Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects.