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Energy Aspects have once again upped their EU carbon price forecasts in light of the unabating rally, while also reiterating their warning of an increasing risk of a market correction.

The position is for two years with possibility for extension. The Program Manager will work as a member in the NDF operations team and report to the Vice President in charge of operations.

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is looking for a talented individual to work to work closely with Thought Leadership (TL) team in the process of researching, compiling, and analyzing renewable energy and climate policy data, tools, guidelines, arranging documentations and perform the data collection, analysis, and reporting.

Due to our expanding portfolio of projects and clients, we are looking to recruit an additional consultant into our Climate Futures team. The successful candidate will take a key role in our UK work, providing technical expertise on the UK Climate Projections and the analysis of weather and climate data in the Water and Environment and Transport sectors.

Due to our expanding portfolio of projects and clients, we are looking to recruit a consultant into our Climate Futures team. The successful candidate will take a leading role in our internationally-focussed work, managing bids and working on international Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessments (CRVA) and adaptation strategies.

The International Specialists - National forest monitoring systems (NFMS) - will support the implementation of Green Climate Fund (GCF) readiness project “Preparatory support to the national designated authority (NDA) of Equatorial Guinea to engage with the GCF in early phases of REDD+”.

The Technical Specialist – Climate Change and Green Climate Fund programme support - will lead the Green Climate Fund (GCF) readiness project “Preparatory support for GCF engagement in Equatorial Guinea”

Participation levels in April’s German auctions were similar to March, with compliance players continuing to purchase the majority of the 17.44 million EU Allowances on offer.

Newly reintroduced chequered skippers are fluttering about Rockingham forest as other butterflies emerge in the sunlight

Butterfly lovers’ emotions tend to boom and bust like butterfly populations. Two weeks of sunshine in my part of the world and my heart’s lifted by plentiful orange tips, small whites and brimstones, while last summer’s peacocks gamely fly on. Alongside a decent abundance of common species there’s the exciting addition of 41 chequered skippers from the continent, now enjoying the warm glades of Rockingham forest, Northamptonshire.

The chequered skippers – males and females collected in Belgium – have been reintroduced as part of the Back from the Brink project, after the species became extinct in England following the hot summer of 1976. (A similar summer would be too dry for this species’ caterpillars, which need moisture to survive.)

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Energy Innovation is seeking a self-motivated, committed, and highly professional Executive Assistant to join the firm. The Executive Assistant will play a key administrative role, leading schedule coordination and providing general administrative support to two executives, the CEO and Vice President.

Global warming will be most noticeable where the weather doesn't normally vary much, such as the tropics. But these places are also home to many of the world's poorest and least culpable nations. Andrew King, Climate Extremes Research Fellow, University of Melbourne Luke Harrington, Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

EU carbon prices set a new seven-year high on Tuesday as bullish momentum continued despite the prospect of larger supply coming to market.

The Canadian territory of Nunavut stands to cut GHG emissions by up to 4.5% through the federal government’s ‘backstop’ carbon pricing scheme, according to a government study released last week.

Data confirms that reptiles use Coral Sea as a highway between their nesting beaches and feeding grounds

Critically endangered hawksbill turtles that nest on islands east of Papua New Guinea have been tracked moving across parts of the Coral Sea marine park where the Australian government wants to allow commercial fishing, conservationists have found.

Nine of the turtles were tagged at the privately owned Conflict Islands in early January, with seven swimming across the Coral Sea to the Great Barrier Reef to feed.

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My mother, Pat Callaghan, was a champion of urban wildlife who was dedicated to making sure people in towns and cities had access to green spaces. With the help of many others she ran “urban safaris” to demonstrate that the environment is not just a matter for rural areas. As chair of Staffordshire Wildlife Trust (1995-2007) she also helped to promote and shape new ideas about conservation.

Pat, who has died aged 86, had a background in radio broadcasting – she worked on the Countrywise programme for BBC Radio Stoke – and her communication skills allowed her to forge many partnerships. She worked tirelessly to foster links between environmental projects, agricultural organisations and grassroots community groups. She also helped to establish the National Forest, a project to plant trees across 200 square miles of central England.

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Investigation uncovers about a dozen intensive beef units, despite assurances that US-style practices would not happen here

Thousands of British cattle reared for supermarket beef are being fattened in industrial-scale units where livestock have little or no access to pasture.

Research by the Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has established that the UK is now home to a number of industrial-scale fattening units with herds of up to 3,000 cattle at a time being held in grassless pens for extended periods rather than being grazed or barn-reared.

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Japan’s plans to add 40% to its coal-fired power generation capacity will push the nation off track to meet its already inadequate Paris target unless it considers a raft of new energy policies such as carbon pricing, a report said Tuesday.

Even though smart climate policies could save tens of trillions of dollars

Last week, the Washington Post obtained a White House internal memo that debated how the Trump administration should handle federal climate science reports.

The memo presented three options without endorsing any of them: conducting a “red team/blue team” exercise to “highlight uncertainties in climate science”; more formally reviewing the science under the Administrative Procedure Act; or deciding to just “ignore, and not seek to characterize or question, the science being conducted by Federal agencies and outside entities.”

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Sophisticated developers might achieve as much as 20% above the average price in next week’s Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) auction, even as the Clean Energy Regulator has announced it will spend less than in previous sales.

South Korea will auction off 5.5 million carbon permits from its market stability reserve on June 1, the government announced Tuesday, only 40% of the total volume available in the reserve.