JON QUEEN’S ENVIRONMENTAL ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS

Alternative energy and biofuels represent the world’s future power and energy supply. Facing finite fossil fuel reserves and a growing cost of climate change effects, nations increasingly turn to these new clean and renewable means to power their commerce and industry. Many governments now use market incentives such as “Green Tariffs” and carbon credit trading to promote domestic investment and capacity development in this area. As a result, the alternative energy and biofuels sectors – especially ones in emerging market economies – are becoming progressively more attractive to the financial markets.

Jon Queen is an alternative energy and climate change businessman, consultant and policy advisor. A lawyer and financial services professional by training, Mr. Queen assists the Foundation for the Development of Environmental and Energy Markets (www.fdeem.org.ua) to provide companies with advice and commercial or legal analysis related to Ukraine’s and other European carbon offset and project markets.

Jon is a member of the American Bar Association and he has participated in over 40 Kyoto Protocol transactions and alternative energy deals. He specializes in structuring projects that generate emissions credits under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism as well as voluntary credits under the WWF’s Gold Standard and the Voluntary Carbon Standard.

Prior to becoming involved in the carbon, environmental and energy markets, Jon was a lawyer at Latham & Watkins LLP and a registered financial services representative for John Hancock. He also worked briefly on Capitol Hill for the House Banking and Financial Services Committee during the Clinton administration.

Jon has an Economics Degree from Cornell University and a Law Degree from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a Certificate of Study in Business & Public Policy from Wharton Business School. In addition to English he has proficient French and basic Russian language skills.

A brief selection of Jon Queen’s environmental articles and publications appears here. For more information about Jon Queen as well as more recent articles, please visit Jon’s blog at http://jon-m-queen.blogspot.com.

JON MCKEE EXPLAINS WHAT GLOBAL WARMING MEANS FOR THE AVERAGE JOE

Ukraine-based emissions trading specialist Jon McKee has a solid background in law, finance, policy consultancy, project development, and corporate strategy. With an economics degree from Cornell University, a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and significant experience as an attorney with Latham & Watkins, LLP and as a licensed securities broker for John Hancock, McKee executes joint implementation projects and clean energy investments under provisions of the Kyoto Protocol, an amendment on the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change binding 37 of its participating countries to bring total greenhouse gas (GHG) emission levels below 5% of their 1990 GHG emission levels by the year 2012.

For Jon McKee and many experts, the 200 years of continuous, unregulated fossil fuel combustion and deforestation in industrial operations worldwide have caused toxic gases within the earth’s atmosphere to accumulate to such critical levels that the heat conveyed into the earth from the sun is unable to escape from the earth as it should normally do.

This trapped heat does not only raise the earth’s core temperature irreversibly; it also pushes the global climate to a series of extremes, as the interrelated weather cycles are consequently affected. Rising temperatures in the sea increase levels of water vapor above the ocean. When this excess water vapor is picked up by hurricanes, the resulting storms are more intense. Melting icebergs and snowcaps cause drastic temperature drops in certain areas of the ocean, endangering the aquatic ecosystems that inhabit these areas of constant, moderate temperature. As deserts become drier and more arid, the wildlife, crops, and populations that inhabit these biomes are all threatened. If climate change isn’t contained soon, all forms of life on earth may face extinction.

John McKee helps industrialized countries in doing their part to address climate change and global warming. More of his efforts may be read at jonmckeequeen.wordpress.com.