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The European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition is seeking a (senior) researcher to join its team in Brussels to work on EU and international climate and energy policy.

The person in this role will engage with a range of partners in Europe and globally to drive media debates around the EU’s international climate leadership role. The work will involve maintaining trusted relationships with key media correspondents and sharing information about newsworthy EU and international climate and energy debates.

Companies spent $84m on congressional campaigns in 2018, analysis of votes and political contributions shows

The oil and gas industry substantially rewards US legislators with campaign donations when they oppose environmental protections, according to a new analysis of congressional votes and political contributions.

Oil and gas companies spent $84m on congressional campaigns in 2018. Researchers found a correlation between an increase in anti-environment votes and an increase in contributions. They documented how lawmakers’ scores from the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) dipped and then were followed by campaign funding from the industry.

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Our Energy and Climate team works extensively on improving energy efficiency and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions at national and international level. We would like to add two Research Assistants to the Energy and Climate team, to contribute and expand all aspects of our work. 

The Washington legislature is unlikely to approve both of the market-based GHG reduction programmes up for debate this year, as negotiations get underway on several climate-related bills in the final weeks of the 2020 session, a key lawmaker told Carbon Pulse.

Oregon Democrats sent a WCI-modelled cap-and-trade bill to the Senate on Monday after passing a key committee, but the vote sparked an immediate decision by Republicans to walk out to protest the carbon market legislation.

Montenegro’s climate law entered into force on Friday, paving the way for a national ETS featuring an auction floor price that could eventually help the market to link with the EU's cap-and-trade system.

The absence of climate drivers – specifically, the Indian Ocean Dipole and La Niña – explains why Australia has gone so long without heavy rains. Andrew King, ARC DECRA fellow, University of Melbourne Andy Pitman, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, UNSW Anna Ukkola, Research Fellow, Australian National University Ben Henley, Research Fellow in Climate and Water Resources, University of Melbourne Josephine Brown, Lecturer, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The GHG removal trading platform led by Finnish utility Fortum foresees holding auctions every other month this year as its first voluntary market sale of 2020 saw prices climb back above €20/tonne.

But the UN health body says the coronavirus outbreak does not yet meet the criteria for a pandemic.

Boris Johnson is hiding from this defining issue. Labour will win if it sets the agenda

Where is Boris Johnson? As flooding devastates large parts of the north, the Midlands and Wales, the prime minister’s strategy is to hide from public scrutiny and hope the whole thing blows over. It’s now 11 days and counting since his last public appearance.

This is a huge miscalculation. Because for all of Dominic Cummings’ talk of “superforecasting”, the government is ignoring the issue that will define politics for decades to come: our response to the climate crisis. From wildfires in Australia and the Amazon, to extreme heat in India, to drought in east Africa, climate-induced extreme weather is already reshaping our planet in disastrous ways.

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Environmental group’s lawyers said they knew boarding North Sea rig was in contempt of court

Greenpeace faces a heavy fine after admitting its climate activists boarded a North Sea oil rig in defiance of a court order last year.

Transocean, the US-based drilling contractor, has asked the court of session in Edinburgh to impose unlimited fines on Greenpeace UK and consider jailing its executive director, John Sauven, for contempt of court.

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The US space agency's InSight probe detects over 450 significant seismic events since landing in 2018.

Ms Johnson, who helped launch the first American into orbit, was portrayed in the film Hidden Figures.

The 'breathtaking scale' of the Australian bushfires were way beyond anything climate science predicted, say scientists.

The Rosalind Franklin robot will be moved from Cannes to Turin to fix a fault on its solar panels.

EUAs tumbled almost a euro to well below €25 early on Monday, as the rapid spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus beyond China sent financial markets reeling.

A panel of experts from UNSW and overseas discuss the potential of solar paint and its ability to power electric cars.

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Scientists say charismatic but lesser-known "flagship species" are key to raising money for conservation.

EnergyAustralia reports big slump in earnings but says technologies needed for reliable, low cost and low carbon grid - wind, solar, batteries, demand management - exists.

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