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Climate Finance xi Acknowledgments This book is a result of the Climate Finance: Financing Green Development project of the Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ) at New York University School of Law, undertaken jointly with NYU’s Frank Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law (CELUL). The project has received very generous support and encouragement from the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, an innovative partnership of NYU and Abu Dhabi. Our colleague and friend NYU President John Sexton was a driving force, together with Abu Dhabi and NYU leaders, in the inception of this partnership and its embrace of this project. Mariët Westermann, the Provost of NYU Abu Dhabi, and Philip Kennedy, the Faculty Director at the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, made possible the project’s major conference on climate finance in Abu Dhabi in May 2009, in which developing and developed country participants from governments, the climate finance industry, multinational businesses, international organizations, NGOs, and academic and research institutions presented and discussed preliminary versions of the proposals and analyses that appear in the following chapters. We are grateful to all authors and conference participants, to NYU Abu Dhabi for their support and for funding much of the work needed to produce this book, to the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research for the kind hospitality in hosting the conference, and to NYU Law School, Dean Richard Revesz, and the Hauser Global Law School Program. Our faculty colleagues Kevin Davis (Director of the closely linked Financing Development Project), Robert Howse (on trade and investment issues), and Lily Batchelder and Mitchell Kane (on tax issues) contributed much to the planning of this project, as well as their own essays. We acknowledge with thanks the support for faculty research provided by the D’Agostino and Greenberg Fund and a grant to the IILJ from Carnegie Corporation of New York for work on global administrative law and specific issues xii Acknowledgments concerning developing countries, to which Simon Chesterman and Angelina Fisher contribute greatly. We also thank Tom Heller, Ngaire Woods, and Bernard Heikel for invaluable support and wise advice, and Marcel Brinkman and Henry Derwent for serving as panel chairs. Toni Moyes, formerly Research Fellow at NYU’s CELUL and now with the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment, played a key role in the formulation of the project. As we sought to construct a unified field of climate finance from a very diffuse body of practice and ideas, her imagination and persistence in synthesizing the vast literature and identifying participants and perspectives were invaluable. She has been succeeded in this role by Bryce Rudyk, Research Fellow at CELUL, to whom the senior editors also express deep appreciation. Bringing together the participants at the conference in Abu Dhabi was a team effort. At NYU Law School, Sarah Dadush, Sun-Young Suh, Alma Fuentes, Basilio Valdehuesa, and Meera de Mel, as leader of the team, worked indefatigably to plan and organize the conference and also the climate finance website (at www .iilj.org) which accompanies this book. Sarah and Sun-Young as rapporteurs also furnished extensive notes and summaries of the conference, which helped greatly in the drafting of parts of this book. Considerable assistance was provided both in New York and Abu Dhabi by the staff of NYU Abu Dhabi: Maura McGurk, Larry Fabian, Brett Heger, Jennifer Sloan, Nils Lewis, Antoine El Khayat, Diana Chester, Peter Christensen, Catherine Kosseau, Brooke Beyer, Carol Gardner, Dean Williamson, and Hilary Ballon. This is an unusual volume in condensing into thirty-six short and trenchant policy essays considerable thought, analysis, and research. Steve Maikowski, the director of NYU Press, has provided exceptional leadership and guidance in taking on this project and enabling us to produce and distribute this book in very timely fashion. We also thank the other staff at the Press. At NYU Law School, James Chapman, John Wunderlin, and Rachel Jones did sterling work in editing, checking, polishing, and proofreading the essays under considerable time pressure. Finally, we are deeply thankful for the support of our much-loved families and friends. Richard Stewart, Benedict Kingsbury, Bryce Rudyk New York City, September 2009 ...

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