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The Brokerage team at Karbone is recruiting to expand its fast growing business. We are seeking experienced and highly motivated candidates to join our platform.

Scientists have uncovered a new dinosaur in China... and it's older than expected.

The role will assist all team members within our small organisation but will be managed and report directly to one of our Programme and Communication Managers

Ahead of the 2019 Climate Summit, the consultant will work with UNDP’s Climate Change and External Engagement Teams to support communications, advocacy and partnership efforts on global climate change policy and advocacy.

Hope is that pair of beavers build dams that help hold back water and improve biodiversity

Four hundred years after the beaver was hunted to extinction in the UK, two of the mammals are being reintroduced on to government land in an English forest as part of a scheme to assess whether they could be a solution to flooding.

Two Eurasian beavers were being released on Tuesday into their new lodge within a large penned-off section of the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire.

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Nexus seeks a Executive Director (ED) to be based in our office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia! The ED leads the Nexus team and is responsible for driving overall growth and organisational management. This role is central to both defining and implementing the membership strategy, identifying new opportunities for Nexus’ growth and ensuring that the organization stays true to its core mission and values.

The Bank seeks a Climate Change Specialist to provide technical leadership in the design, implementation, management and monitoring of activities in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU) sector that are financed by climate-related funds in accordance to (a) the Bank’s rules, regulations, policies and procedures (including those in respect to the procurement of goods and services, financial management, reporting arrangements and its framework to combat corruption); (b) the purpose for which the allocation of funds was approved; and c) any additional requirements of the funding sources.

The world's oceans are under threat from plastic pollution and climate change.

The Bank seeks a Climate Change Consultant to work in partnership with stakeholders across the IDB-Group and Latin America and the Caribbean to provide technical leadership in climate finance, project structuring, and management of the climate finance project pipeline with major climate change funds.

We are currently seeking a Team Leader for our multidisciplinary Climate Policy and Energy Transformation Team of 10-15 experts, mostly based in Berlin, with some based in other countries/CA offices.

The Senior Director, Nature Based Climate Mitigation, will lead the strategic development of NCS science across the institution, working closely with a network of scientists and practitioners across CI Divisions and in collaboration with core external partners.

New Zealand carbon allowances rose to record highs for the sixth day in a row on Tuesday with market observers saying there is more upside, though volumes are falling sharply as supply remains short.

Rare coral has been found in a deep sea research mission off the west coast of Ireland.

South Korea’s cabinet on Tuesday approved two key climate plans that will set the nation on course to meet its 2030 Paris pledge but also allow a near-term rise in CO2 emissions from ETS companies.

Seismic testing plan would cause irreparable harm to Alaska national wildlife refuge, biologists say

The Trump administration has announced it is considering a proposal to conduct seismic testing for oil and gas in the Arctic national wildlife refuge, the largest such preserve in the US.

If the plan moves forward, vehicles with “shakers” – diesel-powered equipment that sends tremors through the landscape – will be deployed along Alaska’s northern coastal plain in an effort to map underground hydrocarbon deposits.

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"Decisions document" for National Energy Guarantee - circulated just a week after submissions closed - confirms worst fears of critics, but confirms the huge savings likely from new wind and solar projects.

Risen Energy insures its core competitiveness with mass production of the industry's first 370W bifacial PERC double glass module.

Former Irish president’s initiative kicks off with podcasts pairing her with comedian Maeve Higgins

Women around the world who are leading the fight against climate damage are to be highlighted by Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and UN high commissioner, in the hopes of building a new global movement that will create “a feminist solution for climate change”.

Perhaps more revolutionary still, the new initiative is light-hearted in tone, optimistic in outlook and presents positive stories in what the originators hope will be seen as a fun way.

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Don't get too excited about the ACCC proposals on energy prices – the big players will be able to dance around them, precisely because of the huge power and protections offered them by the industry regulators, particularly around competition.

Committee says body that takes on environment oversight role needs powers to hold government to account

A new environmental watchdog with powers to hold the government to account must be set up after Brexit to ensure protections are kept in place, an influential group of MPs has said.

The environmental audit committee (EAC) on Tuesday also called for targets on air, water, soil, biodiversity and other issues to be legally binding and subject to five-yearly reports, in a similar way to the carbon budgets produced by the Committee on Climate Change under the 2008 Climate Change Act.

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