Jos Cozijnsen was born in 1960, Hilversum in The Netherlands. Education: Master’s Degree Law at the University of Utrecht (1985) and as Capita European Environmental Law and International Environmental Law at the University of Amsterdam (1993).
After having worked as an social attorney, from 1993 to 1997 he worked for the Netherlands’ Environment Ministry as member of the Dutch delegation to the UNFCCC climate meetings including to ‘Kyoto’ (1997).
Between 1998 and 2019 he was independant consulting attorney emissions trade. In that period he worked as consultant to Environmental Defense Fund (EDF, U.S. NGO) on disseminating the lessons learned in the USA on emissions trading, and now the reversed way from the EU (Harvesting the Low-Carbon Cornucopia 2007). For EDF he contributed to the development of various carbon market mechanisms under the UNFCCC (REDD+), ICAO (CORSIA) and the Paris Agreement (Article 6): see Carbon Accounting and Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes).
He also owned with an associate the ethical fashion webshop Goodfibrations from 2013 to 2018 and coordinated Fashion Revolution Netherlands from 2015-2016.
Since 2019 he worked as carbon specialist and consulting attorney climate impact and insetting for The Climate Neutral Group out of Utrecht, that later merged with Anthesis.
Since end of 2025 he is working again as self-employed consulting attorney on Article 6 (“Klimatpolitik utan Gränser” voor Swedish thinktank Timbro) and regulatory and voluntary carbon markets.
With extensive international environmental law experience, he is deeply knowledgeable about the Paris Agreement’s carbon market mechanisms, international attitudes towards such mechanisms and about current developments in this field.
Core activities:
- A prime core activity is strategic consultancy to companies and authorities on the application of the rules and opportunities of greenhouse gas emissions trading for specific sectors, including aviation for companies, for projects and product chains (scope 3) and on the generation of CO2 value for business cases and carbon credits with CO2 reduction ad carbon removal projects. He is one of the founding fathers of the Dutch Domestic Offset Mechanism (www.nationaleCO2markt.nl).
- Another core activity is legal consultancy to companies, authorities, NGOs and political organisations. Cozijnsen is one of the few attorneys with overview over the linkage between all the legalistic areas related to global and EU emissions trading, the voluntary and regulatory carbon market in general and the novel insetting (climate impact in the supply chain).
- Knowledge transfer and training. Knowledge transfer is one of his core activities, illustrated by this info-site emissierechten.nl, his frequent columns in magazines and participation in conferences, workshops and courses.
