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E3G is looking for an enthusiastic practitioner to lead E3G’s work on Europe-China climate diplomacy and cooperation in its London office.

Iberdrola is seeking a motivated person to join the Brussels-based team as EU Affairs Adviser.

AEMO report indicates delays to roll out of renewables could set back the grid's low-carbon transition and force it to lean more heavily on costly and polluting gas.

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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices cratered beneath the 2014 WCI floor price during the week before renewed speculative interest boosted values on the secondary market, while RGGI allowances (RGA) saw more modest week-on-week changes.

We are searching for five dynamic and motivated full-time researchers to join our team and pursue a PhD at the University of Leuven in Belgium. 

EU leaders should tie their virus-busting stimulus packages to climate action by using carbon market revenues and green taxation, two former EU top climate officials said on Thursday.

Neanderthals were eating fish, mussels and seals at a site in present-day Portugal, according to a new study.

The EU carbon market’s shock-absorbing MSR can only partly avert an allowance price collapse should the coronavirus spur a recession on the scale of the 2009 financial crisis, analysts said on Thursday.

The coronavirus is devastating, but failing to tackle climate change because of the pandemic only compounds the tragedy. Natasha Chassagne, University Associate, University of Tasmania, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 3.6% in 2019, according to provisional government data released Thursday, with another large drop by the power sector helping extend the country’s streak of annual declines.

The annual EU ETS deadline for surrendering carbon units against 2019 emissions will not be delayed in light of the still unfolding coronavirus outbreak, the European Commission announced late Thursday.

California offsets will likely weather a short-term collapse in WCI allowance prices triggered by the COVID-19 outbreak, although the pandemic could pose new obstacles for the industry going forward, several developers told Carbon Pulse.

Price reporting agency Argus Media has postponed its US and Canadian carbon and biofuel market conferences this spring due to the coronavirus pandemic, Carbon Pulse has learned.

EUAs bounced back from an earlier fall on Thursday as markets jumped on record US jobless numbers that were below some expectations.

German power generator EnBW advanced its hedging over Q4 2019 to maintain its slightly advanced position amid declining generation and sales, it said in financial results on Thursday, providing a bearish signal for EUAs.

Pangolins smuggled into China were carrying viruses closely related to the one sweeping the world.

Severity of damage has increased, with areas spared in previous years experiencing moderate or severe bleaching

The government agency responsible for the Great Barrier Reef has confirmed the natural landmark has suffered a third mass coral bleaching episode in five years, describing the damage as “very widespread”.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority said the assessment was based on information from in-water and aerial observations, and built on the best available science and technology to understand current conditions.

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The third such event in five years prompts scientists to renew urgent warnings about climate change.

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Carbon emissions from facilities covered by Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism rose again in 2018-19, Clean Energy Regulator data showed Thursday, but the need to use offsets to meet targets fell by a quarter as baselines under the scheme are increasingly generous.