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The grid is making a rapid transition towards 100% renewables, but do we know for sure how to keep the grid stable without any ‘synchronous’ coal generators?

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AGL CEO Brett Redman resigns with immediate effect, just as the country's biggest coal generator wrestles with complexity of splitting its business in two.

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Forty world leaders will be urged to increase their carbon-cutting actions at US virtual summit.

*PREMIUM LISTING (viewable by non-subscribers until May 24) – In this role within the Portfolio Management unit, you will be responsible for South Pole's procurement of carbon credits; for structuring and closing carbon credit transactions. You will develop business with project developers, retailers, intermediaries and wholesale companies active in carbon markets.

*PREMIUM LISTING (viewable by non-subscribers until May 24) – The purpose of this role is to lead the regional Carbon Procurement practice for the Projects and Markets Unit in North America. In this role, you will provide guidance and direction to the regional team, to ensure they effectively execute our global Projects & Markets strategy within the region.

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More than $5.7 million in funding will help create jobs, boost visitor numbers and protect Indigenous cultural, natural, and historic heritage sites across the country.

The key role of the Manager/Director, ESG & Carbon Solutions is to build relationships and sell soil carbon storage credits to corporate buyers.

A new crop of coffee companies have solutions to cut waste in their industry.

BBC Reality Check's Chris Morris explains how changing three aspects of how you live can make the biggest dent to your carbon footprint.

Further clarity this fall on the Paris Agreement’s rules for international emissions trade could incentivise additional financing in low-carbon initiatives to reach long-term GHG goals, while some sectors are seeing rising competition in the voluntary offset space, a panel heard Wednesday. 

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is working with Turkey to develop a domestic carbon market in order to prepare the country – one of the EU’s largest trading partners – for the introduction of protective border measures by the neighbouring bloc.

UN climate envoy Mark Carney and a dozen government and financial leaders on Wednesday unveiled an alliance to coordinate standards and practices for net zero commitments worldwide in the lead-up this fall's COP26 climate summit. 

The world, accustomed to Australia's shifty climate stance, is unlikely to fall for Morrison's diversion tactics at Biden's climate summit this week. Matt McDonald, Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New Zealanders pay the costs of poor environmental and infrastructural governance, but have little opportunity to influence policy in the first place. Here's how that could change. Nicolas Pirsoul, Policy Analyst and Research Assistant, University of Auckland Maria Armoudian, Lecturer, Politics & International Relations, University of Auckland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

President Joe Biden’s clean energy-focused proposals should face the Senate’s 60-vote threshold instead of a simple majority through the budget reconciliation process, Senator Joe Manchin (D) said Wednesday, as the key swing vote also voiced his continued opposition to a carbon tax.

This is a permanent position, reporting to the Director Product and Life Cycle Sustainability who is a member of the management team of the central sustainability organisation. The Product & Life Cycle Sustainability team is a group of seven, including the position Senior Manager Climate & Standards. This is a new role, playing a key part in realising Tetra Pak’s 2030 sustainability ambitions. 

The global shipping industry wants governments to tax their carbon emissions as they try to tackle climate change

Some 226 of the world’s 500 biggest companies utilise internal carbon pricing, an 80% rise over the past five years, according to a survey published on Wednesday.

Proposed tax will kill the state’s nascent EV market and make it impossible to meet its own emissions targets, critics say

A coalition of car manufacturers, industry groups, infrastructure companies and environmentalists have branded the Victorian government’s proposed electric vehicle tax the “worst electric vehicle policy in the world”.

In an open letter, published as a full-page advertisement in the Age newspaper on Thursday, the group of 25 organisations lashed the state government’s policy.

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