Ricardo Bayon: Archive
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A Clear Choice for the UN-FCCC
April 30, 2010 Comment
The UN should do the right thing and select Christiana Figueres to serve as head of the UN-FCCC secretariat.
Is Kerry-Graham Op-ed in NY Times a "Game changer"?
October 12, 2009 4 Comments
So here we have it, a ray of hope. As Manik Roy of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change writes, this op-ed could be a game changer. It highlights a potential area of agreement between the Democrats and...
Kerry-Boxer: Is This the Big One?
October 8, 2009 10 Comments
It has been a while since I last blogged... so long and so many things have happened that deserve mention, that I don't know where to start. But let's not bury the lead, the main story these days is the recently released Kerry-Boxer bill, also known as the "Clean Energy, Jobs, and American Power Act" (whose horrible acronym, CEJAPA, was the subject of much twittering last week. Kudos to Cantor CO2e, by the way, for snagging the CEJAPA URL... Hope it is worth it). I would say that it is the bill that we've all been waiting for, except that I'm not entirely sure it is.
Of the Bees and the Birds...
July 7, 2009 2 Comments
Of the Birds and the Bees... We think we understand everything there is to know about the birds and bees... And when I say that I speak not in the figurative, but in the actual. I'm talking about the real...
So Right, and yet So Wrong...
July 3, 2009 Comment
In an opinion piece on the recent passage of climate change legislation is the US House of representatives, everyone's favorite opinion master, Thomas Friedman, gets it both remarkably right and dead wrong. He is right in arguing for passage of...
It Passed... Now What?
June 30, 2009 Comment
So the Waxman-Markey bill on energy and climate change (officially known as H.R. 2454 or the American Climate and Energy Security Act of 2009) squeeked by in a nail-biting vote this past Friday. The official tally was 219 votes in...
Deal on Climate close in the US House of Representatives
June 23, 2009 Comment
According to the Capitol Hill newspaper, Roll Call, a deal has been reached that should allow the Markey-Waxman climate change bill to pass in the US House of Representatives. The big issue lately was agriculture (see previous posts), but that...
Down On the Farm...
June 22, 2009 3 Comments
Getting climate change legislation in the US was always going to be hard. First it has to go through the House of Representatives, then the Senate, then the White House, and every step of the way all those people who...
A Pioneer up for Grabs
June 15, 2009 Comment
One of the big stories among carbon market circles over the last month is the story of how a variety of bidders are now trying to take carbon project developer, EcoSecurities, private. Most people in this day of post-internet bubble...
About this Blog: Environmental Markets To Carbon and Beyond...
May 4, 2009 1 Comment
Some nine years ago, a group of people interested in the environment met under the auspices of a DC-based non-profit called Forest Trends to discuss a question that was pointedly on very few people's minds: Should nature and the services...