Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development

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Climate Finance xvii About the Contributors Lily Batchelder is Professor at NYU School of Law. Her research centers on income taxation, wealth transfer taxation, tax incentives, and social insurance. She previously worked at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where she focused on transactional and tax policy matters. Eric C. Bettelheim is a Founder and Executive Chairman of Sustainable Forestry Management Ltd. His publications include coeditorship of the Royal Society’s volume on free-market approaches to land-use change and forestry, which includes an article of his on carbon sinks. Daniel Bodansky is the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia, and is the US-nominated arbitrator under the Antarctic Environment Protocol. Formerly he served as US State Department Climate Change Coordinator and advised the UN in climate change and tobacco control. Marcel Brinkman is Associate Principal in McKinsey & Company’s London Office and a member of McKinsey’s Corporate Finance practice. He co-leads the McKinsey’s Environmental Finance service line and leads the Project Catalyst Carbon Finance work. James Chapman is Research Fellow at the Center for Environmental and Land Use Law at NYU School of Law. His research focuses on establishing links between distinct emissions trading schemes and on nuclear waste law and policy and its implications for low-carbon development . Rae Kwon Chung is Ambassador for Climate Change for the Republic of Korea. He received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the IPCC and was Director for the Environment and Sustainable Development Division at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Sarah Dadush is Fellow at the Institute for International Law and Justice at NYU School of Law. She works primarily on the Institute’s Financing xviii About the Contributors Development program. Her research focuses on the regulation of immigrant remittances and innovations for development financing. Kevin E. Davis is the Beller Family Professor of Business Law at NYU School of Law. His current research centers on contract law, the governance of financial transactions involving developing countries, and the general relationship between law and economic development. Henry Derwent is President and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association. Previously he was the international climate change director for the UK government and served as the prime minister’s special representative during the UK G8 presidency in 2005. Navroz K. Dubash is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He has held positions at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (Delhi), the World Resources Institute, and the Climate Action Network. Antonia Eliason is an Associate in Allen & Overy’s London office. She clerked at the European Court of Justice and at the Legal Affairs division of the WTO. She was also a visiting research fellow at the World Trade Institute, where she researched climate change mitigation and issues related to the SPS Agreement. Mark Fulton is global head of strategic planning at Deutsche Asset Management Climate Change Advisors in New York. He has extensive experience in research and management in private banking. Arunabha Ghosh is Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow. He previously worked as Policy Specialist at UNDP’s Human Development Report Office in New York, where he authored the 2006 HDR and coauthored the 2005 and 2004 editions. Luis Gomez-Echeverri is with the Global Energy Assessment Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. He has held positions at UNDP and the Secretariat of the UNFCCC and led the UN secretary-general’s WEHAB (Water, Energy, Health, Agriculture, and Biodiversity) initiative. Thomas Heller is Professor at Stanford Law School and Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and at the Woods Institute for the Environment. He is Executive Director of the Climate Policy Initiative, Climate Advisor to George Soros, a member of the core team of Project Catalyst, and advises Working Group III of the IPCC. About the Contributors xix Robert Howse is Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at NYU School of Law. He is a contributor to the American Law Institute project on WTO Law, has been involved in several NAFTA arbitrations , and is a core team member of the Renewable Energy and International Law project. Mitchell A. Kane is Professor of tax law at NYU School of Law. His current research...