Frank Joshua - Revision history

Miriam Rose: /* Notes */

2010-07-06T14:23:44Z

Notes

Claire Robinson: /* Carbon market involvement */

2010-04-13T11:00:38Z

Carbon market involvement

Claire Robinson: /* Carbon market involvement */

2010-04-13T11:00:06Z

Carbon market involvement

Claire Robinson: /* Carbon market brags */

2010-04-13T10:59:12Z

Carbon market brags

Claire Robinson: /* Carbon Market brags */

2010-04-13T10:58:51Z

Carbon Market brags

Claire Robinson: /* Dodgy? */

2010-04-13T10:57:51Z

Dodgy?

Claire Robinson at 10:56, 13 April 2010

2010-04-13T10:56:57Z

Claire Robinson at 10:56, 13 April 2010

2010-04-13T10:56:13Z

Miriam Rose: /* Connections */

2010-02-03T12:42:12Z

Connections

Miriam Rose at 12:28, 3 February 2010

2010-02-03T12:28:04Z

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 In another article Joshua demonstrates his faith in carbon offsetting under the much-critiqued [[Clean Development Mechanism]]<ref>critical currents. Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
-Occasional Paper Series, No 7, November 2009 [http://www.carbontradewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=322&Itemid=292 'Carbon Trading How it works and why it fails'] Accessed 30/01/10</ref> as he claims there is no issue with 'additionality'- the rule that offset projects must prove that they would not have occurred anyway and required the funding provided by other companies, who in turn are allocated 'carbon credits' to pollute more than their 'share'. Despite mainstream critiques around the teething problems with ensuring additionality, which have been largely accepted by carbon trading companies concerned <ref>Dirk Forrister and Richard Rosenzweig [http://www.natsource.com/news/index.asp?n=544 Response to Opposition to the Use of International Offsets for Compliance in a Future Domestic Cap-and-Trade Program] 12/11/09. Natsource website, News. Accessed 16/01/10</ref> the article claims:
+Occasional Paper Series, No 7, November 2009 [http://www.carbontradewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=322&Itemid=292 'Carbon Trading How it works and why it fails'] Accessed 30/01/10</ref> as he claims there is no issue with 'additionality' – the rule that offset projects must prove that they would not have occurred anyway and required the funding provided by other companies, who in turn are allocated 'carbon credits' to pollute more than their 'share'. Despite mainstream critiques around the teething problems with ensuring additionality, which have been largely accepted by carbon trading companies concerned <ref>Dirk Forrister and Richard Rosenzweig [http://www.natsource.com/news/index.asp?n=544 Response to Opposition to the Use of International Offsets for Compliance in a Future Domestic Cap-and-Trade Program] 12/11/09. Natsource website, News. Accessed 16/01/10</ref> the article claims:
 :He [Joshua] is appalled by the idea that investors should receive credits under the CDM only once they have invested considerable time and funds in showing that it would otherwise be commercially unviable.

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 In another article Joshua demonstrates his faith in carbon offsetting under the much-critiqued [[Clean Development Mechanism]]<ref>critical currents. Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
-Occasional Paper Series, No 7, November 2009 [http://www.carbontradewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=322&Itemid=292 'Carbon Trading How it works and why it fails'] Accessed 30/01/10</ref> as he claims there is no issue with 'additionality'- the rule that offset projects must prove that they would not have occurred anyway and required the funding provided by other companies, who in turn are allocated 'carbon credits' to pollute more than their 'share'. Despite mainstream critiques around the teething problems with ensuring additionality, which have been largely accepted by carbon trading companies concerned <ref>Dick Forrister and Richard Rosenzweig [http://www.natsource.com/news/index.asp?n=544 Response to Opposition to the Use of International Offsets for Compliance in a Future Domestic Cap-and-Trade Program] 12/11/09. Natsource website, News. Accessed 16/01/10</ref> the article claims:
+Occasional Paper Series, No 7, November 2009 [http://www.carbontradewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=322&Itemid=292 'Carbon Trading How it works and why it fails'] Accessed 30/01/10</ref> as he claims there is no issue with 'additionality'- the rule that offset projects must prove that they would not have occurred anyway and required the funding provided by other companies, who in turn are allocated 'carbon credits' to pollute more than their 'share'. Despite mainstream critiques around the teething problems with ensuring additionality, which have been largely accepted by carbon trading companies concerned <ref>Dirk Forrister and Richard Rosenzweig [http://www.natsource.com/news/index.asp?n=544 Response to Opposition to the Use of International Offsets for Compliance in a Future Domestic Cap-and-Trade Program] 12/11/09. Natsource website, News. Accessed 16/01/10</ref> the article claims:
 :He [Joshua] is appalled by the idea that investors should receive credits under the CDM only once they have invested considerable time and funds in showing that it would otherwise be commercially unviable.

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 Joshua's other baby, the high profile [[Climate Investment Partnership]] have blocked their website from internet archives and are virtually untraceable despite some clues that they may still be active.
-==Carbon market brags==
+==Carbon market involvement==
 In an article reporting on a 2009 lecture by Frank Joshua, he is described detailing his involvement in the creation of carbon trading and its insertion into the 1997 Kyoto Protocol as a US-led initiative. The article reveals the means by which Emissions Trading was sneaked into the protocol despite considerable opposition:

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 Joshua's other baby, the high profile [[Climate Investment Partnership]] have blocked their website from internet archives and are virtually untraceable despite some clues that they may still be active.
-==Carbon Market brags==
+==Carbon market brags==
-In an article reporting on a 2009 lecture by Frank Joshua, he is described detailing his involvement in the creation of carbon trading and its insertion into the 1997 Kyoto Protocol as a US led initiative. The article reveals the means by which Emissions Trading was sneaked into the protocol despite considerable opposition:
+In an article reporting on a 2009 lecture by Frank Joshua, he is described detailing his involvement in the creation of carbon trading and its insertion into the 1997 Kyoto Protocol as a US-led initiative. The article reveals the means by which Emissions Trading was sneaked into the protocol despite considerable opposition:
 :Mr. Joshua's most intriguing insight was that emissions trading had at one point been deleted from the draft Kyoto Protocol, only to be reinserted in a different format; as a result, some of the delegations opposed to the ET were caught unawares and agreed to the article. <ref>Can only be traced at Zoom Info website [http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Joshua_Frank_375726.aspx Frank Joshua] original page removed. Accessed 30/01/10</ref>
-In another article Joshua demonstrates his blind faith in carbon offsetting under the much-critiqued [[Clean Development Mechanism]]<ref>critical currents. Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
+In another article Joshua demonstrates his faith in carbon offsetting under the much-critiqued [[Clean Development Mechanism]]<ref>critical currents. Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
 Occasional Paper Series, No 7, November 2009 [http://www.carbontradewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=322&Itemid=292 'Carbon Trading How it works and why it fails'] Accessed 30/01/10</ref> as he claims there is no issue with 'additionality'- the rule that offset projects must prove that they would not have occurred anyway and required the funding provided by other companies, who in turn are allocated 'carbon credits' to pollute more than their 'share'. Despite mainstream critiques around the teething problems with ensuring additionality, which have been largely accepted by carbon trading companies concerned <ref>Dick Forrister and Richard Rosenzweig [http://www.natsource.com/news/index.asp?n=544 Response to Opposition to the Use of International Offsets for Compliance in a Future Domestic Cap-and-Trade Program] 12/11/09. Natsource website, News. Accessed 16/01/10</ref> the article claims:

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 :Among his achievements in climate change are: establishment of the [[UNCTAD]]-Earth Council Emissions Trading Policy Forum; and the UNCTAD International Expert Group on the [[Clean Development Mechanism]]; creation of the [[International Emissions Trading Association]] (IETA); the [[Emissions Market Development Group]] (EMDG); the [[Vienna Carbon Finance Group]], and the [[Climate Investment Partnership]] (CIP). Frank Joshua is the author or editor of several publications and papers on emissions trading. <ref>European Investment bank website [http://www.eib.org/infocentre/forum/archives/dublin-2003/speakers/frank-joshua.htm Dublin 2003 conference speakers, Frank Joshua] Accessed 22/01/10</ref>
-==Dodgy?==
+==Arthur Andersen, former employer, indicted==
-Accounting firm [[Arthur Andersen]], Joshua's previous employers were indicted and broken up in 2002, during his spell as Global Director for Emissions Trading Services, when it was discovered that executives in the firm had sanctioned the destruction of large volumes of relevant paperwork and electronic data relating to their long term client [[Enron]] who were facing litigation at the time.<ref>CNN, March 14, 2002 on 'CNN WOLF BLITZER REPORTS 17:00' 'Enron Fallout Hits Company's Accounting Firm' </ref>
+Accounting firm [[Arthur Andersen]], Joshua's previous employers, were indicted and broken up in 2002, during his spell as Global Director for Emissions Trading Services, when it was discovered that executives in the firm had sanctioned the destruction of large volumes of relevant paperwork and electronic data relating to their long term client [[Enron]] who were facing litigation at the time.<ref>CNN, March 14, 2002 on 'CNN WOLF BLITZER REPORTS 17:00' 'Enron Fallout Hits Company's Accounting Firm' </ref>
 Joshua's other baby, the high profile [[Climate Investment Partnership]] have blocked their website from internet archives and are virtually untraceable despite some clues that they may still be active.

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-Frank Joshua is a die-hard carbon trading advocate who has both shaped, and profited from this mechanism of the Kyoto protocol. He is Chief Executive Officer of the [[Climate Investment Partnership]] (CIP). <ref>European Investment bank website [http://www.eib.org/infocentre/forum/archives/dublin-2003/speakers/frank-joshua.htm Dublin 2003 conference speakers, Frank Joshua] Accessed 22/01/10</ref>
+Frank Joshua is a carbon trading advocate who has both shaped and profited from this mechanism of the Kyoto protocol. He is Chief Executive Officer of the [[Climate Investment Partnership]] (CIP). <ref>European Investment bank website [http://www.eib.org/infocentre/forum/archives/dublin-2003/speakers/frank-joshua.htm Dublin 2003 conference speakers, Frank Joshua] Accessed 22/01/10</ref>
 According to [[Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation]]'s [[Larry Lohmann]], in his book "Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversion on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power";
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 ==Connections==
-Joshua has worked alongside [[Frank Buttle]] in the [[International Emissions Trading Association]] and [[Arthur Andersen]]. The two also appear to have co-founded the [[Climate Investment Partnership]] in 2003.
+Joshua has worked alongside [[John Buttle]] in the [[International Emissions Trading Association]] and [[Arthur Andersen]]. The two also appear to have co-founded the [[Climate Investment Partnership]] in 2003.
 ==Resources==