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*PREMIUM LISTING – Reporting to the Director of Development, the Senior Development Officer – Government and Multilateral Agencies works closely with program teams to support the impact and growth of Gold Standard programs through grant funding from government and multilateral donors.

*PREMIUM LISTING – Reporting to the Director of Development, the Senior Development Officer – Foundations and Corporations works closely with program teams to support the impact and growth of Gold Standard programs through grant funding from foundation and corporate donors.

Emitters in the WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme increased their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) short position as prices retraced this week, while financial entities saw varied results between the futures-only and futures and options markets, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

The role will focus on providing support for TFS’ Green desk, which covers Australian and international renewable energy, energy efficiency, and carbon markets.

EU downstream manufacturers fear their exclusion from the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) will lead to their customers switching to foreign-made products, as officials deem them not currently worth the effort.

The senior huntsman gave the hunting advice in private webinars that were leaked online.

The Queen, Charles and William have hit out at those who are all talk on the climate crisis. One has to wonder who they mean

I understand why they go out, “but it isn’t helpful to do it in a way that alienates people,” explained Prince Charles of Insulate Britain, in an interview this week in which he also revealed, somewhat alienatingly, that he’d had his Aston Martin converted to run on “surplus English white wine and whey from the cheese process”.

At long last, a line to eclipse Ed Begley Jr’s from an old episode of The Simpsons, in which the actor explains that his preferred vehicle is “a go-kart, powered by my own sense of self-satisfaction”. A deeply committed environmental activist, Begley has always been able to take the piss out of himself – a pastime you sense has never been top or even bottom of Prince Charles’s to-do list. Or, in fact, of the to-do list of the many, many servants who do for him in his many, many residences.

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

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A new analysis shows almost all emissions reductions will be the result of state government policies, and will have virtually nothing to do with the federal government. Bill Hare, Director, Climate Analytics, Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University (Perth), Visiting scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

EUAs consolidated the previous session's late gains on Friday while near-term gas and power prices weakened, despite ongoing concerns about demand destruction in the wake of rising energy costs.

Germany's potential ‘traffic-light’ coalition has agreed on key policy issues as part of their efforts to form a government, including a coal exit by 2030, Reuters reported on Friday, citing a draft document.

The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including a rutting deer, a Javan langur and some cunning foxes

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Australia’s plans to launch a new industrial carbon crediting scheme next year will likely fail to drive significant emissions cuts unless the government introduces regulations that will make someone want to buy the units, several groups have pointed out.

Government will call for producers and consumers of commodities such as soya and cocoa to commit to stopping land clearances

The UK government is pushing for an ambitious agreement among world leaders at Cop26 to halt and reverse forest loss and degradation, the Guardian can reveal.

Big producers and consumers of deforestation-linked commodities such as soya, cocoa, coffee and palm oil have been asked to commit to halting land clearances, the second largest source of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. A coalition of world leaders is expected to announce the initiative on the second day of the climate summit in Glasgow alongside new funding to protect forests.

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Dutch team designed and built two-person van with kitchen, bed, shower, loo and range of up to 450 miles a day

A team of students from the Netherlands are due to complete an 1,800-mile (3,000km) road trip across western Europe in a solar-powered camper van that they designed and built themselves.

The Stella Vita is designed for two passengers and has a kitchen, sitting area, bed, shower and toilet. Using solar energy alone, the vehicle can cover up to 450 miles on a sunny day, reaching a top speed of 75mph, as well as powering all the inside amenities, a TV and a laptop.

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A new modelling approach improves projections of Antarctica’s future ice loss. It shows a low-emissions scenario would avoid the collapse of West Antarctica’s ice sheet and limit sea-level rise. Dan Lowry, Ice Sheet & Climate Modeller, GNS Science Mario Krapp, Environmental Data Scientist, GNS Science Nick Golledge, Professor of Glaciology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Chinese Carbon Emissions Allowance (CEA) price rebounded this week and trading volumes again beat the lows from mid-September, while domestic offset prices remain rangebound.

One is the astonishing fall in the cost of renewable energy. The other is the huge growth in the citizens’ movements demanding action

• Bill McKibben is the Schumann distinguished scholar at Middlebury College, Vermont, and leader of the climate campaign group 350.org

So many things have broken the wrong way since the Paris climate accords were agreed in mid-December of 2015. Within eight weeks Donald Trump had won his first presidential primary, an insane comet streaking across the night sky, trailed by outliers like Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. The world has endured opéra bouffe distractions like Brexit, and the true paralyzing emergency of the pandemic.

And yet here we are, staggering and stumbling towards the real follow-up to Paris, starting 31 October in Glasgow. The international order, such as it is, is held together with baling wire and duct tape: China (its housing market cratering) and the US (between rebellions) are spitting at each other, India half-lost in its ugly experiments with repression, Europe Merkelless. The global south is ever more rightly angered by the failure of the north to deliver on its necessary pledges for climate finance – and to pay for the increasingly obvious damage that global warming has inflicted on nations that did nothing to cause it. But somehow all these players must stitch together a plan for dramatically increasing the speed of a global transition off fossil fuel – and if they don’t, then Paris will forever be the high-water mark of climate action. (And the actual high-water mark of rising seas will jump upward.)

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Proposed planning amendments seek to limit solar and wind farm development within 10km of certain NSW regional city centres, or within 5km of residential land.

The post NSW flags tighter rules on where wind and solar farms can be built appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Morrison bows to pressure and will go to Glasgow, but the Nationals will decide this weekend what policies Morrison will be allowed to pack.

The post Morrison agrees to go to Glasgow, Nationals to decide Australia’s climate policies appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Transgrid’s Jesse Steinfeld and Eva Hanly on why a rapid transition to renewables is possible. Plus, Andrew Forrest.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Australia can hit 91 pct renewables in a decade, and keep the lights on appeared first on RenewEconomy.