Carbon Pulse

More than 70 German companies, governments, and NGOs have joined a voluntary initiative launched by the German government on Monday to buy carbon credits on their way to carbon neutrality.

Royal Dutch Shell will implement short-term emission reduction goals amid increasing investor pressure, it announced Monday, supplementing its longer-term targets as the oil major factors takes into account global climate progress and other internal activities.

As part of the Portfolio Management team you will be responsible for overseeing and developing business for the sales of carbon credits and Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). You will also take responsibility for research and analysis of new opportunities in environmental markets in different countries around the world.

As part of the Portfolio Management team, you will be primarily responsible for structuring and closing carbon credit sourcing transactions. In addition, you will develop business with project developers, retailers, intermediaries and wholesale companies active in carbon markets.

As a Portfolio Manager you will be responsible for developing solutions in renewable energy markets around the world. You will work on commercial agreements with project developers, retailers, intermediaries and corporate consumers active in voluntary renewable energy markets.

The World Bank Group will double its climate spending to $40 billion per year over 2021-2025, it said Monday, with funding renewable energy and creating markets for climate business among its priorities.

WRI is seeking an innovative and technically strong expert to fill the role of Subnational Climate Action Associate.

Ecofys – A Navigant Company is currently recruiting a Senior Consultant for the Smart Policies team in our Berlin office. As part of a dynamic team, you will work on projects for public and private sector clients in various areas of national, European and international energy and climate policy and international cooperation, in particular with the MENA region.

This position is central to maintaining and advancing the University of Waterloo (UW) as a leading centre for research and knowledge mobilization on the impacts of global climate change and the transition to a decarbonized and climate-resilient society in Canada and around the world.

The OECD is looking for an energy innovation programme officer for its Clean Energy Transition team.

At least four Latin American and Caribbean countries have voiced interest in hosting next year’s UN climate summit after Brazil withdrew its offer.

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Zanzibar’s Masingini Natural Forest Reserve provides drinking water for much of the island and habitat for dozens of rare and endangered species, but its forests are being illegally clear-cut. Meanwhile, in the Brazilian Amazon, the “lungs of the planet”, recent satellite images show 7900 square km of illegal deforestation in just the last year. Isolated transgressions? Hardly.

A growing number of Canadian provinces and organisations are taking sides and requesting to intervene in the legal fights against the federal government’s carbon tax.

Companies that exceed their emissions limits set under South Africa’s upcoming climate laws will be forced to pay a penalty of at least five times the country’s carbon tax.

Saskatchewan's Ministry of Environment has outlined 25 targets across five areas to complement the province's climate change strategy and reduce the impacts of global warming.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rejected calls from refiners to lower its conventional renewable fuel quota from 15 billion gallons in 2019, while finalising a modest 3% increase to its total biofuels requirement for next year, the agency announced Friday.

European carbon rose further above €20 on Friday, supported by firmer energy prices and the lack of new supply.

A group of northeast US states will begin the public process next month to design a carbon programme for the region’s transportation sector, sources told Carbon Pulse.

Governments will converge Katowice, Poland over the next two weeks to hammer out how to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, but some countries are set to spurn calls for more urgent action.