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The Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) is seeking an experienced and established thought leader in the field of environmental and climate disclosure and mainstream reporting to appoint as the Chair of its Technical Working Group (TWG).

The Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy is seeking a dedicated sustainable energy, climate change or development finance specialist to work on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and climate change finance projects in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. 

CBI is seeking an experienced Standards Manager to contribute to on-going development of science-based green definitions and green Criteria across all sectors of a green economy. 

A newly discovered species of pterosaur that lived about 210 million years ago has been found in the Utah desert.

Deforestation of the Amazon and illegal fishing have both been linked to tax havens according to a new study.

70% of vessels implicated in illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing are registered in tax havens, report finds

Money channelled through secretive tax havens has been used to fuel deforestation in the Amazon and illegal fishing around the world, racking up a heavy environmental toll but leaving few ways for businesses to be held to account.

Billions of pounds worth of finance has travelled through countries internationally recognised as tax havens, and has been traced by researchers to activities that contribute to environmental destruction, such as growing soy and beef in deforested areas of the Amazon, and expanding a network of largely unregulated fishing vessels operating under “flags of convenience”.

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EU carbon prices climbed above €18 to set a new seven-year high on Monday, extending its run of recent gains amid thin volumes and August’s curtailed auction supply.

Trump is trying to accelerate the key contributor to California’s expanding wildfires – climate change

Last week, 18 wildfires were burning at once in California, including its largest in history, destroying over 1,100 homes and forcing tens of thousands of residents to evacuate. The smoke made the air in the state’s Central Valley unhealthy to breathe for a record 15 consecutive days, as I can personally attest.

Fun fact: there are currently no clouds at all over NorCal. The opaque skies from #SanFrancisco to #Sacramento to #Redding to #Lake Tahoe are the exclusive product of dense #smoke from numerous large #wildfires. #CarrFire #RanchFire #DonnellFire #FergusonFire #CAfire #CAwx pic.twitter.com/feVtfkDJTT

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator last week issued 236,502 new carbon offsets, all of which went to projects seeking to save greenhouse gas emissions through land-use management.

New Zealand on Monday released a consultation paper proposing major revisions to its emissions trading scheme, including setting an annual absolute cap, replacing the fixed price option with a cost containment reserve and launching a process to phase down free allocation to industrials.

The Government is hoping to pass its National Energy Guarantee, but the PM must first get sign off from his own party.

Under pressure from Labor, minister proffers timeline of grant decision-making

The environment minister, Josh Frydenberg, says his department conducted two stages of due diligence on the Great Barrier Reef Foundation before he approached the organisation on 9 April to offer $443.8m in funding.

Under pressure from Labor in the House of Representatives on Monday, the environment minister proffered a timeline of his decision making. It came after Frydenberg said on Sunday extensive due diligence had been done ahead of awarding the controversial grant, and the managing director of the foundation said on Monday she was unaware of that due diligence process and no one from the government had contacted her.

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The state of New South Wales is 100% in drought. Farmers are struggling with failing crops, low water supply and diminishing livestock feed. From ground level, the earth looks a brown dustbowl, but from the air it is transformed into an artwork of colour and texture. Photographer David Gray has captured the scenes using a drone

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Ratch Australia's 42.5MW solar project powers up, at its location next to the decommissioned Collinsville coal plant.

Amid stand-off over the NEG, state and federal ministers took a major step forward on renewables integration by deciding to take action on AEMO's 20-year blueprint, and got enthusiastic about Alan Finkel's big ideas for renewable hydrogen.

Two new reports confirm NEG would kill off renewable energy in Australia after 2021, put Australia at "back of pack" on climate.

A NEG is worth having only if the ambition can be (easily) lifted, otherwise it's worse than useless, locking in a do-nothing policy for a decade.

Tesla to unveil Model 3 electric vehicles for first time in Australia next week, as analysts report production nears end of August target of 6,000/week.

Sims urges Coalition MPs to abolish rooftop solar subsidies as part of a package including the underwriting of "firm capacity" and price controls.

Coral Triangle could be key to conserving the world’s reefs as Indonesia corals survive worst coral bleaching event in history.

A recent scientific survey off the coast of Sulawesi Island in Indonesia suggests that some shallow water corals may be less vulnerable to global warming than previously thought.

Between 2014 and 2017, the world’s reefs endured the worst coral bleaching event in history, as the cyclical El Niño climate event combined with anthropogenic warming to cause unprecedented increases in water temperature.

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