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Director of Forest Carbon Project Origination to play a lead role in identifying viable forest carbon projects and contracting with landowners to create climate benefits via forest management.  Offset credits generated from these projects will be sold in the voluntary and compliance carbon markets in North America. 

IncubEx is looking for a Head of The Voluntary Climate Marketplace (“TVCM”). The ideal candidate is passionate about our company’s mission and the potential of environmental markets as all companies assess their ESG goals and as environmental products continue gaining traction as an asset class.

IncubEx is looking for a renewable fuels salesperson who is knowledgeable about Renewable Identification Number (RIN) markets and/or Low Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS) market. This salesperson should have existing contacts in the RIN and LCFS marketplace. This is a client-facing role that requires travel to industry conferences and clients.

Seven international airline groups on Monday announced letters of intent to explore buying carbon removal units from a US-based direct air capture (DAC) platform.

We are looking for motivated entrepreneurs to join ENGIE Factory as full-time founders. Build your company with us and lead a new venture in Singapore that will disrupt the energy and carbon trading sector.

Three chief authors of the State of the Environment Report provide its key findings. While it’s a sobering read, there are a few bright spots. Emma Johnston, Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney Ian Cresswell, Adjunct professor, UNSW Sydney Terri Janke, Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The findings are staggering in their representation of loss and environmental degradation across Australia. While I am disappointed, I am unfortunately not surprised. Ayesha Tulloch, ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

National leaders have welcomed Australia’s proposed bid to jointly host the UN’s annual climate conference in partnership with Pacific Island countries as early as 2024, propelling the proposal through to the next stage in the process.

The Canadian federal government proposed to either introduce a carbon trading programme or modify its existing 'backstop’ CO2 pricing system on Monday as it plans a declining emissions cap for the oil and gas sector. 

In Britain and America unprincipled politicians are shredding policies to stop global heating – even as temperatures soar

The danger posed by heatwaves in Europe should be taken more seriously. On the continent, the headlines are about forest fires. In the UK, the story is about the country grinding to a standstill. Both views mask a deadly truth. High levels of heat are a killer, one seen retrospectively in the data on excess deaths and hospital admissions. It was only in 2008 that statisticians concluded that as many as 70,000 people died as a result of a heatwave in Europe in 2003. By foolishly telling people to “enjoy the sunshine” Dominic Raab, the UK’s deputy prime minister, proved that there is no challenge he would not rise to.

It is disappointing that the next UK prime minister will be chosen by a Tory party membership that cares very little about dealing with the climate emergency. Global heating will make lethal summer temperatures more common and more extreme. In the cabinet, Alok Sharma remains a rare Tory voice of reason. It is a worry that at least one of the contenders in the Tory party leadership race thinks that the choice for Conservatives is either to be a party of net zero or a party of low taxes.

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Green activists brought challenge, arguing climate change strategy did not spell out how carbon emissions cuts would be achieved

The high court has ordered the government to outline exactly how its net zero policies will achieve emissions targets, after a legal challenge from environmental groups.

Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth and the Good Law Project had all taken legal action over the government’s flagship climate change strategy, arguing it had illegally failed to include the policies it needed to deliver the promised emissions cuts.

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The battle between oil and the environment has flared up in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),  with environmental lobbyists urging the president of the African country to cancel the selling off exploration rights in tropical forests.

The price of standardised spot carbon credits and those of near-dated vintages remained depressed in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) this week, but demand for later-dated nature vintages held up, reflecting resilience in the market's contango that underpins a bullish outlook for offsets.

At Origen we have an exciting opportunity for a Strategy Lead to be part of shaping the worlds future by decarbonizing hard-to-abate industry and removing CO2 from the atmosphere. You will report directly into the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) supporting strategy and development of commercial opportunities for deployment of Origen’s technology. We aim to be the global leader in carbon dioxide removal solutions.

There is no ‘peace’ to be brokered with fossil fuel companies who stand to make billions. Effective policy is to threaten their gains

Anthony Albanese has repeatedly pledged to “end the climate wars”.

He won’t.

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Australia’s list of threatened species grows as ecosystems show signs of collapse due to climate crisis and habitat loss, report finds

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The health of Australia’s environment is poor and has deteriorated over the past five years due to pressures of climate change, habitat loss, invasive species, pollution and mining, according to a government report that warns the natural world holds the key to human wellbeing and survival.

The state of the environment report – a review completed by scientists last year but held back by the Morrison government until after the federal election – found abrupt changes in some Australian ecosystems over the past five years, with at least 19 now showing signs of collapse or near collapse.

Since 2016, 202 animal and plant species have been listed as threatened matters of national environmental significance, following 175 being added to the list between 2011 to 2016. This has happened while the rate of discovery and description of new species has slowed considerably over the past decade. There remain many more species that are unknown than those known.

While a government threatened species strategy had improved the trajectories of 21 priority species, many others did not show improvements. The list would increase substantially in coming years as the impact of the catastrophic 2019–20 bushfires – which killed or displaced between 1 billion and 3 billion animals – became clearer.

Australia has lost more mammal species than any other continent, and has one of the highest rates of species decline in the developed world. More than 100 Australian species have been listed as either extinct or extinct in the wild. The major causes of extinction were introduced species and habitat destruction and clearing.

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With the country melting I can no longer distract myself from my fears about global heating. But speaking to activists has shown me how to counter this terror

I was chairing a Zoom event last week about carbon bombs, and how to defuse them. All over the world, as governments broadcast warm words to a warming planet, corporations are planning and lobbying for fossil fuel projects, which, if they get off the ground, will sail us casually past our carbon targets – almost as if democracy itself were just a beach-body diet that everybody talked about and nobody intended to stick to. How to stop this nihilistic corporate greed? Legal avenues, direct action, political routes, or everything all at once?

As I was doing this, a message popped up in the chat from Kjell Kühne, an academic and activist and one of the panellists: “Stop biting your nails please.” “Huh,” I thought, “weird thing to say to 846 people. How does he know they’re all biting their nails?” Then I realised it was a private message just to me. I considered messaging back: “Chum, when you stop making this incredibly compelling case about the climate apocalypse, I’ll stop biting my nails.” Then I remembered I was supposed to be chairing and got my head back on task.

Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist

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The European Commission is set to propose temporary exemptions to pollutant and CO2 emissions obligations for power plants and refiners under a far-reaching effort to spare gas ahead of winter, according to a leaked draft communication seen by Carbon Pulse on Monday.

António Guterres issued a dire warning that the global warming limit of 1.5C agreed under the 2015 Paris climate accord was slipping further out of reach as more people around the world are hit by extreme floods, droughts, storms and wildfires. The UN secretary general made his remarks at the 12th Petersberg Climate Dialogue conference, which started on Monday in Berlin

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MP joins the four other candidates in saying they would not unpick UK’s environmental commitments

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Kemi Badenoch has backed the government’s target of reaching net zero emissions by 2050 and vowed not to unpick current climate commitments in an apparent U-turn at the Tory leadership environment hustings.

The MP for Saffron Walden had previously likened the target to “unilateral economic disarmament” but under questioning from Alok Sharma, the Cop26 president, at the hustings in parliament on Monday she said she backed it.

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