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62 development dialogue september 2006 – carbon tradingHydro. One validator, which had not even visited the project it wasvalidating, was actually part-owned by a parent-company that was aninvestor in the CDM project. After a meeting with the CDM ExecutiveBoard in 2005, validators agreed to take measures to avoid suchincidents in the future, without specifying what such measures wouldconsist of or how they would be enforced. ‘We must establish selfjusticeinternally,’ said Einar Telnes of DNV. 120Advertisementfor DNV ClimateChange Services,Milan, December2003.Hasn’t anyone at the UN ever heard of confl ict of interest?Sometimes it’s hard to say. Confl ict of interest has become so routinein international climate politics, as elsewhere under neoliberalism,that the concept has virtually disappeared. Despite being proddedby NGOs such as the World Rainforest Movement, the UN has declinedto acknowledge the issue. To try to keep vested interests outof the rule-making process for carbon trading, said John Houghton,a member of the IPCC Bureau which appointed the land use reviewteam, would ‘cut out important experts’. In his view, ‘It’s impossibleto flush out everybody.’ 121