Jos Cozijnsen was born in 1960, Hilversum in The Netherlands. Education: Master’s Degree Law at the University of Utrecht (1985). Specialization: social-administrative Law. From 1993 to 1997 he worked for the Netherlands' Environment Ministry as member of the Dutch delegation to the UNFCCC meetings including to Kyoto. With extensive international environmental law experience, he is deeply knowledgeable about the Kyoto Protocol's market mechanisms, international attitudes towards such mechanisms and about current developments in this field.

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  • A third core activity is strategic consultancy to companies and authorities on the application of the rules in an Allocation Plan and for specific sectors. He conducted studies on the linkage between climate policy, the energy market and accession to the EU for the World Resources Institute and the Regional Environment Center and gave a presentation on this subject to the ECCP workshop in Brussels. He also conducted several relevant studies and projects for ERM (2002) and Ecofys (2003 en 2004), with Fraunhofer Institute (Increasing the Ambition of EU Emissions Trading, 2006) on emissions trading and allocation plans, and one year internship with Shell Global Solutions in The Hague on developing CO2 business and elaborating carbon abatement curves for their EU facilities.

                                       
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Core activities:
  • Knowledge transfer and training. Since 1998 he works as consultant for Environmental Defense (USA) on disseminating the lessons learned in the USA on emissions trading, and now the reversed way; see publication 'Harvesting the Low-Carbon Cornucopia' (2007). Knowledge transfer is one of his core activities, illustrated by his info-site www.emissierechten.nl , his frequent comments columns in magazines and participation in conferences, workshops, training courses (latest for Britt Training, in South Africa). He commented intensely on Allocation Planning. Against this background he is involved in the Dutch CO2 trading platform and site Climex of the New Values organisation, an initiative of Rabobank, APX and Tennet.
  • Another core activity is legal consultancy to companies, authorities and political parties. Cozijnsen is one of the few attorneys with overview over the linkage between all the law areas related to emissions trading. His position is illustrated further by articles in Milieu & Recht, SDU/Srtomen Magazine, Risk Books, Reuters Business Insight, UNCTAD and the American Bar Association. For Kluwer he organised a seminar on emissions trading and he is member of the Working Party on Climate Policy of the Dutch Association for Environmental Law and member of the Association of Attorneys on Emissions Trading. Current projects: use of Kyoto Mechanisms and Emissions Trading for Russia, for an EU agency; Emissions Trading for the Agriculture Sector (NL); Linking Carbon Coverage and Storage to the EU emissions trading (NL), see publication above.

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