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The Director of Norway's forest initiative is a former Climate Advisers employee

Andreas Dahl-Jørgensen, Deputy Director General in the Ministry of Climate and the Environment, which leads the climate and forest initiative, has not wanted to be interviewed by Panorama about his role in Climate Advisers Inc.
His name has cropped up a number of times during the editorial work on this case. He has been copied in on a large number of documents relating to the case the case over a period of many years. He is the Director of the technical section responsible for the case in KLD, and he has dealt with requests from our editorial staff about document access.

A glance at Dahl-Jørgensen's CV tells us that he was working as an adviser in the forest initiative of KLD when Climate Advisers got their initial contracts with Norwegian authorities, and he definitely worked on agreements where the company was a sub-partner and recipient of some of the funds. He then moved to the United States and got a job in the consultancy firm where he became a director.

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There he worked on the new agreements which were funded by Norway, and also contributed to the company receiving new contracts with Norwegian authorities.

KLD emphasises to Panorama Nyheter that they regarded the consultancy services of Climate Advisers as extremely valuable, and that their efforts have had a global impact on the reduction of deforestation. However, the Ministry will not grant us an interview about the roles played by Dahl-Jørgensen.

In a written statement, KLD confirms that Dahl-Jørgensen of Climate Advisers acted as a consultant on the contract where the company was a sub-supplier in a consortium led by the Meridian Institute:

«During that period he played a central role in the negotiations leading to

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