Frank Joshua

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Frank Joshua.

Frank Joshua is currently Chief Executive Officer of the Climate Investment Partnership (CIP).

According to Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation's Larry Lohmann, in his book "Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversion on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power";

Frank Joshua, who served as the UN Head of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading and led several expert groups including the UNCTAD Earth Council Emissions Trading Policy Forum and the UNCTAD Expert Group on the Clean Development Mechanism, went on to be the first executive director of the International Emissions Trading Association, Global Director of Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Services at Arthur Andersen, and managing director of US-based carbon trader Natsource – all of which are cashing in on the accounting rules Joshua himself helped to enshrine in the UN.

According to the European Investment Bank website:

Mr Joshua was a Managing Director at Natsource Tullet (Europe) Limited in London (January 2002-June 2003), and Global Director for Emissions Trading Services at Arthur Andersen in London (April 2000 – December 2001). From 1991 to 2000, he was Head of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva.

Mr Joshua’s UN career, which began in 1981, covered primarily the fields of finance and climate change. From 1986 to 1993, Frank Joshua was a member of UNCTAD’s Paris Club team of advisors assisting indebted developing countries to renegotiate their official debt. From 1993 to 1998, he was head of UNCTAD’s program on Private Financing of Infrastructure Projects; and from 1991 to 2000, he headed UNCTAD’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Program.

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.