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The Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has some sobering news. Michelle Lim, Lecturer in environmental and sustainability law, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

El Niño events can affect millions of people around the world, causing drought in Australia and floods in the Americas. Mandy Freund, PhD Researcher, University of Melbourne Ben Henley, Research Fellow in Climate and Water Resources, University of Melbourne David Karoly, Leader, NESP Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub, CSIRO Helen McGregor, ARC Future Fellow, University of Wollongong Nerilie Abram, ARC Future Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences; Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The tree disease will cost taxpayers a third more than the foot-and-mouth outbreak in cattle in 2001.

UNEP DTU Partnership (UDP) is currently recruiting highly experienced and motivated senior advisors with strong backgrounds in sustainable development, climate policy, and carbon markets. 

Porter Gosling is acting as a recruitment agency for a highly respected organisation in climate finance supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy. You will provide advice and support to organisations to deliver their portfolios; identifying and assessing new and existing opportunities including renewable energy certificates, carbon credits and other relevant financial instruments.

The First Climate team is made up of a group of dynamic, energetic and highly creative individuals who source and develop carbon offset, renewable energy and water projects for governments and corporate clients. To complement this vibrant team, we are looking for a “Sourcing Manager” in South East Asia.

The global assessment report paints a dire picture of our effect on the natural world

That humans are meddling with the natural world, in ways that we often fail to understand, is no longer in doubt. From the near-extinction of many land animals – the elephant, the tiger, the rhinoceros – in their natural habitats to the destruction of forests in the developing world, the decline of insect life in areas of intensive agriculture in developed countries, and more recently the increasingly evident scourge of plastics in the oceans, our imprint on the natural world has become impossible to ignore.

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As a Consultant at Navigant (former Ecofys) in Utrecht you will work on several projects domestically and abroad. The themes you will work on are diverse and may vary from assessing the environmental performance of products and corporate value chains to conducting a scenario for a transition to a fully renewable global energy system.

The Senior Associate position represents a unique opportunity to support one of WRI’s high impact initiatives to increase the ambition of the private sector to reduce GHG emissions

RGGI remains willing to engage with Virginia about the state’s future participation in the northeast US carbon market after Governor Ralph Northam (D) approved a budget that complicates the state’s ability to join the regional programme.

Biggest cost of tree disease will be loss of benefits such as clean air and water, study finds

An invasive fungal disease killing ash trees will cost the British economy nearly £15bn, a study has found.

Ash dieback, which is lethal to European ash trees, originated in Asia and is thought to have been brought to the UK on imported ash trees some years before it was first identified in Britain in 2012.

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The UN's global assessment of nature has some hard hitting lessons for the world.

Ministers announce report on economic case for biodiversity, but activists insist actions, not studies, are needed

The British government has commissioned Sir Partha Dasgupta, a professor at Cambridge University, to write a report on the economic case for biodiversity as policymakers across the planet are urged to step up efforts to reverse the alarming decline of the natural world.

Senior United Nations officials praised the announcement, which was made at the G7 environment ministers’ meeting at the weekend, and expressed hope it will lead to a biodiversity study that is as influential as the Stern review on the economics of climate change.

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Scientists reveal one million species at risk of extinction in damning UN report

Human society is in jeopardy from the accelerating decline of the Earth’s natural life-support systems, the world’s leading scientists have warned, as they announced the results of the most thorough planetary health check ever undertaken.

From coral reefs flickering out beneath the oceans to rainforests desiccating into savannahs, nature is being destroyed at a rate tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10m years, according to the UN global assessment report.

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Environmentalists say Australia should be at the forefront of a global deal to save nature

Australia’s major political parties are facing calls to explain what role they will play in securing a global deal to save nature and the human populations reliant on it after a major scientific report warned a million species across the world face extinction.

The first-of-its-kind assessment by an international scientific panel convened by the United Nations, known as the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, warns species are declining at a rate unprecedented in human history, with three-quarters of land-based environments and two-thirds of the marine environment significantly altered.

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Residents of the town on the banks of the Mississippi River have watched a family members and neighbors have been lost to cancer. Official figures show the risk of cancer from toxic air is 50 times higher in Reserve than the national average. Feeling neglected by politicians, they are fighting back against the chemical plant has been emitting chloroprene into the air for half a century

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A compelling UN assessment shows the full picture of humanity's devastating impact on biodiversity and nature.

Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have seen water levels hit near-decade lows after a hot summer and dry autumn

Sydney, Darwin, Brisbane and Melbourne are all facing the prospect of dams below 50% capacity after low rainfall and high temperatures across the country.

In Sydney, inflows are at their lowest since 1940. Greater Sydney’s 11 dams were at a combined 55% capacity on Sunday – compared to 73% at the same time last year.

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Australia has issued more than 300,000 new carbon offsets over the past two weeks, but also revoked two projects that had failed to generate any credits, according to data from the Clean Energy Regulator.

Photographer Matthew Newton travelled alongside the 5,000-strong protest against Adani’s proposed Carmichael coalmine, which left Hobart on 17 April before making its way to Clermont in central Queensland and on to Canberra, where it ended on 5 May. The former Greens leader Bob Brown lead the charge

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