Dr. Charlotte Streck (Germany), Ph.D., Doctor Juris (Humboldt University, Berlin), MSc (Regensburg / Freiburg im Breisgau), is CISDL Lead Counsel on Climate Change and Vulnerability, and Director of Climate Focus, BV, an international climate change law and policy consulting firm with offices in Rotterdam, Washington DC, and Beijing. She is former Senior Legal Counsel with the World Bank and has been involved in climate change policy and carbon projects throughout her career. Charlotte is an advisor to numerous governments, private companies, foundations, and non for profit organizations both on commercial as well as policy aspects of climate change policy. She has published extensively and serves on several advisory and editorial boards, is an adjunct lecturer of Potsdam University and an advisor to the Prince of Wales Rainforest Project.

Her recent publications include: What is the right scale for REDD? (2008), with Arild Angelsen, Leo Peskett, Jessica Brown and Cecilia Luttrell, in Angelsen, A. (ed.), Moving ahead with REDD: Issues, options and implications, CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia, pg 31-40; Forests, Carbon Markets, and Avoided Deforestation: Legal Implications (2008), in Carbon and Climate Law Review, Issue 03/2, 2008; The role of land-based offsets in Emissions Trading Systems: Key design aspects and considerations for linking (2008) with Andreas Türk, Tracy Johns, Naomi Pena, Climate Strategies Working Paper Series, Working Paper 2, Oxford, August 2008; Climate Change and Forests: Emerging Policy and Market Opportunities (2008), edited together with Robert O’Sullivan, Toby Janson-Smith, and Richard Tarasofsky, eds., published by Brookings Press, Washington DC; Making Markets Work: A Review of CDM Performance and the Need for Reform (2008) with Jolene Lin, European Journal of International Law 2008, 19: 409-442; The Future of the CDM in a Post-Kyoto World, (2007), with Thiago B. Chagas, Carbon & Climate Law Review, Vol. 1, No 1, CCLR 1/2007, p.53; Marketing CERs: Legal and Contractual Issues for Sellers, (2007), The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond, Legal and Policy Challenges of Climate Change, A. Wybe Th. Douma, Leonardo Massai, A. Massimiliano Montini (eds.), T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague; The governance of the Clean Development Mechanism – the case for strength and stability, (2007), Special Issue Environmental Liability Journal: The Kyoto Protocol – current legal status of carbon finance and the flexible mechanisms, David Freestone, Charlotte Streck (eds), vol. 15 issue 2, 2007, p.91; Implementation of the Clean Development Mechanism in China: Sustainable Development, Benefit Sharing and Ownership of Certified Emission Reductions, (2007), with Xinjun Zhang, Yearbook of International Environmental Law 2005, Vol.16, Oxford University Press, p. 259-284.