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Justin Sullivan has been following California's second-largest reservoir's falling water levels.

The UK unveiled its hydrogen strategy on Tuesday, proposing to use contract-for-difference funding that gives no preference to renewables-derived production over captured fossil gas.

Government sets out plan for low-carbon economy that could also create thousands of jobs

About 3 million households in the UK could begin using low-carbon hydrogen to heat their homes and cook rather than fossil fuel gas under government proposals to attract at least £4bn of investment to the hydrogen economy by 2030.

The government has published its long-awaited plans for a UK-wide hydrogen economy, which it says could be worth £900m and create more than 9,000 high-quality jobs by the end of the decade, rising to £13bn and 100,000 new jobs by 2050.

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In this you will play a key role in shaping our story. Part of an agile team with an extensive and influential remit, this role is particularly focused oversee environmental performance and compliance with bp's sustainability frame across Australia & NZ (ANZ) entities. This role sits on our new look ANZ Communications and Advocacy Leadership Team.

The Niskanen Center is seeking a climate director for its prominent and growing climate policy department. This is a full-time, senior-level position that reports to the Vice President of Policy. Regular engagement with the Vice President of Government Affairs, Senior Vice President, and President are also anticipated. 

Pennsylvania environmental groups pushed back on Monday against Republican legislators and industry groups’ opposition to the state joining the RGGI programme in 2022, saying the state Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC) has solid legal authority to approve the final power sector cap-and-trade regulation.

The Alternative Fuels Section within the Transportation Fuels Branch is seeking to recruit an Air Resources Engineer to support the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

Global survey finds 74% also want climate crises and protecting nature prioritised over jobs and profit

Three-quarters of people in the world’s wealthiest nations believe humanity is pushing the planet towards a dangerous tipping point and support a shift of priorities away from economic profit, according to a global survey.

The Ipsos Mori survey for the Global Commons Alliance (GCA) also found a majority (58%) were very concerned or extremely concerned about the state of the planet.

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Academic research can shed light on crucial questions about what life on Earth will be like under the most plausible emissions scenarios. And a warning: the answers are confronting. Andrew King, ARC DECRA fellow, The University of Melbourne Nerilie Abram, Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; Deputy Director for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, Australian National University Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Mr Bezos's Blue Origin says it was unfairly treated after being excluded from lunar landing contract.

Standardised voluntary emissions reduction (VER) values soared to new heights over the past week as transacted volume accelerated, while voluntary carbon market (VCM) participants noted offset prices on the non-standardised, over-the-counter market were also rising in tandem with exchange-traded products.

Many people have mixed feelings about arachnids, but like many more popular animals they need our help

Much less visible for most of the year, spiders make their presence felt in late August and through the early autumn. This is the mating season of some of the most common varieties, when male house spiders come out of hidden corners to look for females, and garden spiders reach adult size and spin their biggest, most dazzling webs.

Yet while the spider is familiar, the star of one of the great children’s books, Charlotte’s Web, and a fixture of nursery rhymes and Halloween decor, its relationship with humans is complicated. Fear of spiders, arachnophobia, is common and has serious impacts on the lives of sufferers. Its prevalence appears unrelated to any rational assessment of risk. Spiders in the UK are almost all harmless. Farmland species perform valuable ecosystem services, by predating on insects that are our competitors for crops. But they have proved durable repositories of human anxieties – with a cultural association with witches and wickedness dating back to the middle ages.

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*PREMIUM LISTING – This full-time role is responsible for advancing the Gold Standard's digital programme in all areas. Leading a cross-team initiative, the successful candidate will be a thought leader and will work to design, develop and implement a digital programme to support Gold Standard’s key objectives. 

Climate Focus is seeking successful a highly motivated individual to work within the land use team on nature-based solutions to climate change including projects related to the sustainable development of agriculture, protection and restoration of forests.

With service industries and foreign tourism decimated, the potential fall in ore prices and demand shows just how much the country relies on mining exports

It seems not all that long ago all the talk was about how gloriously the economy was going and how the Covid recession was in the past. But now the two states encompassing 55% of the nation’s economy are in lockdown and the second half of this year looks to be tough for the economy – especially as our iron ore exports might be about to take a hit.

One of weird things about the pandemic is that our major exports of iron ore and coal have seen an absolute prices boom:

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Analysis finds focus on stress tests and modelling impact of most extreme scenarios leaves sector blind to real risks

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The financial world is making the same mistakes regarding climate change as it did with the housing market in the lead-up to the 2008 global financial crisis, a new report warns.

Degrees of Risk – co-authored by Ian Dunlop, a former head of the Australian Coal Association – found that while regulators and the financial sector had begun to grapple with the risks posed by the climate crisis, they were not moving fast enough.

Instead, they were relying on modelling scenarios of 3C and 4C of global heating without properly factoring in how catastrophic they would be.

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Germany is forecast to record its biggest rise in GHG emissions since 1990 this year as the economy rebounds from the pandemic-related downturn, according to a report published on Monday.

EUAs rose sharply early on Monday, clawing back last week's losses as dip buyers entered the market and European gas prices surged.

As the climate changes, census data shows that Americans are shifting from safer areas of the US to the regions most at risk of heating and flooding

Science has provided America with a decent idea of which areas of our country will be most devastated by climate change, and which areas will be most insulated from the worst effects. Unfortunately, it seems that US population flows are going in the wrong direction – new census data shows a nation moving out of the safer areas and into some of the most dangerous places of all.

To quote Planes, Trains and Automobiles: we’re going the wrong way.

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