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Tesla dominates market for new electric vehicles in Australia in 2020, mostly through Model 3 which will likely beat all but one of its petrol and diesel rivals too.

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In this role, you will oversee and contribute to quantitative analysis conducted in support of these projects. This includes working with junior staff to conduct analysis using WRI-developed analytic tools as well as overseeing energy system and macroeconomic modeling conducted by leading external modeling firms. 

Our client, an established global investment management firm, is seeking to hire an Economist/Strategist to lead and help build the firms’ climate change research team. The Firm prides itself for independent thought.

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Pennsylvania joining the US Northeast RGGI ETS via executive order would prompt a legal challenge and create prolonged regulatory uncertainty for the scheme, a state Republican warned the programme’s top official.

Increased buying of RGGI allowances (RGA) by compliance entities led to higher prices on the secondary market last week, according to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data.

A German investment bank has reiterated its view that EU carbon allowances will almost triple in value in 2020 and could even top €100, despite prices languishing in the mid-€20s for most of the past year.

Global investment of $50-70 billion a year will be needed to halve emissions from shipping by 2050, a scale 100 times greater than an industry-proposed $2/t levy would raise but a level experts say has already been borne by the maritime sector within living memory.

Research is at an early stage but scientists said it had huge potential for destroying cancers.

The Coalition claims it’s meeting its targets and doing more than Labor did in power. What’s the reality?

The prime minister says the Coalition is acting on emissions, meeting its targets and doing more than Labor did when in power. What’s the reality?

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High pressure at Heathrow Airport reaches 1,049.6 millibars - a record for the UK's capital.

IETA is recruiting for a position of EU Policy Director in its Brussels office from March 2020 to March 2021 (maternity cover) with a possible extension.

The impact of humans on nature may have been far greater and longer-lasting than we thought, say scientists.

But it rejects a claim by a man whose Pacific Island nation is threatened by rising sea levels.

Malaysia will not become "the garbage dump of the world", says the country's environment minister.

Bioluminescent algae in Jervis Bay, Australia, glows in a captivating night time display.

EUAs extended a January high early on Monday, only to fall back on a feeble auction, faltering energy complex, and predictions that the MSR's supply-curbing powers may be temporarily weakened this year.

The jobholder will coordinate the Embassy’s work to combat climate change, including diplomatic action to support delivery of the 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) in December 2020.

The quantity of EU carbon allowances to be removed from the market over the 12 months from this September by the supply-slashing MSR will be reduced by tens of millions of tonnes due to the UK being suspended from auctioning and allocations.