Joost van Acht is Managing Director for Southeast Asia at CVDT Consulting, a carbon advisory firm with its main focus on the Asia-Pacific region. He works together with local project developers to obtain additional revenues through the carbon market. Since 2004, he has been working on projects in China that involve renewable energy, industrial energy efficiency and bio-energy. In 2008 he established the company’s Southeast Asia Office in Singapore from where he provides a wider range of carbon advisory services to clients in the region.

Joost is a trained economist educated in the Netherlands, Portugal and Japan. Prior to his work in the carbon market he was employed as an economic policy consultant and carried out advisory work for the Dutch government and the European Commission.

With climate change a 21st century reality, CVDT Consulting offers a wide range of services. For technology companies this could mean strategic advice on how to benefit from the growing carbon markets, while other clients may need solutions to address and reduce their carbon footprint. The fast paced economic development in Asia provides both an opportunity and a challenge to Climate Change and project development therefore remains a central element of day-to-day activities. By providing emission reduction advice, investment brokerage and technology matching services he assists clients in the implementation of projects that contribute to the sustainable development of Asia.