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Established Global Investment Management Firm is seeking to hire an Climate Economist. The Firm prides itself for independent thought.

European development bank EBRD is proposing to extend its shadow price of carbon beyond coal to all its energy investments over the next five years, which are mainly in eastern Europe and north Africa, it said Wednesday.

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) issued more than 1.3 million new offsets this week, while over 5 mln existing credits saw their invalidation periods expire during the past two weeks, according to state data.

Australian wildlife can generally cope with drought, but they're not prepared for the combination of people, introduced animals, and no water. John Woinarski, Professor (conservation biology), Charles Darwin University Chris Dickman, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, University of Sydney Richard Kingsford, Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sarah Legge, Associate Professor, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

More than 500 companies have aligned with the TCFD to improve their climate risk reporting, according to a survey released on Wednesday, though what is put out is often too vague for investors.

Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) prices under the US Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) dropped to a new five-year low on Tuesday on renewed talk of the Trump administration’s push for a reform package for the biofuels industry.

Firm wants #PacketInWalkers campaigners to use envelopes instead of posting used packets with label attached

A social media campaign asking crisp manufacturers to make their packaging recyclable has led to Royal Mail issuing a plea to members of the public to put crisp packets in an envelope before posting them.

The #PacketInWalkers campaign was launched on 21 September, asking people to use “a pen, paper, and some sellotape” to send used Walkers’ crisp packets back to the Leicester-based crisp manufacturer. The campaign page says: “It won’t cost a penny as we can use Walkers’ own Freepost address. Imagine the scenes in Walkers HQ when hundreds of packets are delivered each day.”

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Three campaigners are thought to be first to be jailed for UK environmental action since 1932

Three anti-fracking activists are thought to have become the first environmental campaigners to be jailed for a protest in the UK since 1932.

Simon Roscoe Blevins, 26, and Richard Roberts, 36, were sentenced to 16 months in prison and Richard Loizou, 31, to 15 months on Wednesday after being convicted of causing a public nuisance by a jury at Preston crown court in August. Another defendant, Julian Brock, 47, was given a 12-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to the same offence.

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Footage shows whale feeding near Gravesend, as ecologists ask public to stay away

Fresh sightings of a beluga whale in the Thames have been confirmed, amid growing concern about its safety.

Unconfirmed footage of the whale was posted just after 9.30am on Wednesday. The RSPCA cast doubt on the first report, saying it was impossible to identify the creature from the video. But later its acting chief inspector, Clare Dew, who is at the scene, confirmed subsequent sightings. “The beluga is back and we are monitoring the situation,” a spokeswoman said.

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Bombs dropped in World War II were so strong they were felt in the Earth's upper atmosphere

The River Thames has become a ‘wild west’ unbound by new laws to clean up the city’s roads, say campaigners

A huge new cruise ship terminal planned for the River Thames would lead to a surge in dangerous levels of air pollution in the heart of the capital with unknown health consequences for hundreds of thousands of people, campaigners have warned.

Under the proposals, which have been given planning permission, up to 55 giant cruise ships would dock in London every year. Each ship would need to run its diesel engines round the clock to power onboard facilities, generating the same amount of toxic NO2 emissions as almost 700 continuously running lorries.

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Underwater nurseries offer glimmer of hope for endangered ecosystems, encouraging growth of coral fragments on fibreglass structures anchored to the seabed

As an ocean early warning system, coral reefs have been sounding the alarm for years. They have been bleached white by marine heatwaves and killed off en masse by a combination of factors including pollution, overfishing, acidification and climate change.

But now scientists in Florida, and other tropical locations worldwide, are attempting to stop the rot by creating coral “nurseries” in which young populations can be raised in controlled conditions before being planted on denuded reefs.

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Do you know how an ice sheet can move? You’ll find out below.

In this warming world, some parts of the planet are warming much faster than others.  The warming is causing large ice bodies to start to melt and move rapidly, in some cases sliding into the ocean. 

This movement is the topic of a very new scientific study that was just published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.  The Arctic is warming much faster than other parts of the planet and the ice there is showing the signs of rapid warming.  This fact has serious consequences. First, melting ice can cause sea levels to rise and inundate coastal areas – it also makes storms like hurricanes and typhoons more destructive.  Melting ice also causes a feedback loop, which can cause more future warming and then more ice loss.

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European carbon prices plunged on Wednesday after Poland’s spot auction cleared at a massive discount to the secondary market.

China has 259GW of new coal-fired power generation capacity under construction, equivalent to the total US coal plant fleet, despite Beijing's efforts to hold back carbon-intensive development, a report found on Wednesday.

How hydro technology defied gravity and became the gold standard for grid-scale energy storage.

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Concerns over CO2 emissions as development restarts at hundreds of coal-fired power stations in China.

Emails tabled in Senate inquiry recommended ‘trade-offs’ to Great Barrier Reef Foundation

Great Barrier Reef scientists were told they would need to make “trade-offs” to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, including focusing on projects that would look good for the government and encourage more corporate donations, emails tabled in the Senate reveal.

The documents, including cabinet briefing notes, contain significant new details about the workings of the foundation and the government decision to award it a $443m grant, including:

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All three of the methods found to be most effective at protecting livestock do not involve killing carnivores. Lily van Eeden, PhD Candidate in Human-Wildlife Conflict, University of Sydney Adrian Treves, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Greens want to create a new not-for-profit energy retailer to end the scamming of consumers. The government already owns an energy utility, so why not re-purpose that for the public good.

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