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Project Manager, Environment & Climate Change, Canadian Standards Association – Toronto
As a Project Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for CSA Group’s GHG and Accessible Building Registries, standards development activities related to the environment as well as national and international standards for a diverse collection of natural resources sectors including mining, forestry, water resources protection, and oil & gas, as well as conducting business development initiatives to expand the portfolio into new areas of the Environment & Climate Change and Natural Resources Programs.
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Managing Consultant (Energy), Navigant – Abu Dhabi
Navigant Consulting’s Global Energy Practice enables energy companies, governments and regulators to anticipate the changes and to meet the challenges of transforming global energy markets. Our consultants are all dedicated energy specialists, are highly qualified and collectively combine substantial operational experience with deep profession-based skills.
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Environment Advisor, Energy & Carbon Management, Metropolitan Police – London
Help create a cleaner, greener Met. The Met is there to fight crime and protect the people of London. But we’re also committed to reducing our impact on the planet. Managing energy use and carbon emissions is a big part of this, which is why we need an Environment Adviser to give us expert guidance.
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Deputy Directors, EU Exit Energy and Climate Change Programme, BEIS – London
We are looking for two excellent deputy directors to lead the delivery of the EU Exit Energy and Climate Change portfolio.
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Manager/Senior Associate, Sustainability & Climate Change Consulting, PwC – London
PwC's Sustainability and Climate Change (S&CC) practice, part of PwC Consulting, offers services to both public and private sector clients across a range of specialist subject areas, including; economic development, urbanisation, impact assessment, responsible business and climate change.
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Policy Associate, Pacific Forest Trust – San Francisco
The Policy Associate role is crucial to helping understand simply and tangibly the complex, often technical issues that confront forest landowners and stakeholders alike in our rapidly changing world. In particular, the Associate will play a key role in furthering PFT’s goals and objectives to expand the role of forests in meeting state, regional and national targets for reductions of CO2 emissions, both at the compliance offset and the sector level.
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CP Daily: Thursday June 7, 2018
A daily summary of our news plus bite-sized updates from around the world.
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Political differences hindering introduction of Washington DC carbon tax
Two contrasting carbon fee proposals between Washington DC lawmakers and environmental coalitions have highlighted the political differences between the groups while delaying the formal introduction of a bill, according to campaigners speaking at a panel on Thursday.
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BRIEFING – Purchase power: How companies use green certificates to boost their climate credentials
A fast-rising number of companies worldwide are using green certificates as part of a strategy to help demonstrate their climate credentials, elevating their efforts to levels sometimes more ambitious than those required by governments under the Paris Agreement.
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EU Market: EUAs stay lodged near €16 despite another strong auction
EU carbon prices again gravitated towards €16 following a second day of choppy trade, failing to scale new ground after another strong auction.
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EPH gains ground on RWE as EU’s biggest emitter as CO2 costs soar
Czechia-based firm EPH gained ground on German utility RWE as the biggest emitter in the EU ETS last year as it continued to build its portfolio of thermal power assets, according to a report published Thursday.
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SK Market: KAUs extend losses as swaps take edge off demand
South Korean carbon allowances lost another 2% on Thursday, as last week’s government auction and a large amount of swap deals have taken some of the edge off compliance demand, which had been estimated as high as 30 million.
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Climate Finance Specialist (Asia), International Center for Tropical Agriculture – Hanoi
The Climate Finance Specialist will join the Climate Policy Hub (CPH), based at the CIAT Asia regional office in Hanoi (Vietnam), and work under the supervision of the CPH leader. She/he will have overall responsibility to provide scientific expertise on channeling investments to support developing country priorities for the agriculture sector under the Paris Agreement, and on developing innovative CSA financing schemes including green bonds, carbon markets, REDD+ and payment for ecosystem services (PES).
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New Zealand begins consultation on zero-emission plan
New Zealand on Thursday launched a public consultation on how to achieve its ambition of net zero emissions by 2050, but revealed that the target might cover less than half of its total GHG output.
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CP Daily: Wednesday June 6, 2018
A daily summary of our news plus bite-sized updates from around the world.
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Number of EU ETS participants holding surplus drops by half -survey
The number of EU ETS-covered companies holding a surplus of allowances has more than halved over the past year, according to a worldwide survey by Thomson Reuters Point Carbon.
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EU Market: EUAs finish higher after stronger auction, but can’t hold above €16
EU carbon prices edged higher in a choppy session on Wednesday, though they failed to hold above €16 for a second straight day despite a stronger auction result.
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EU environmental campaigner joins Brussels PR firm
A veteran EU environmental campaigner has joined a global public affairs consultancy firm, Carbon Pulse has learned.
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RINs rebound on reports of stalled US biofuels policy overhaul
US biofuels credits shot up on Wednesday from 5-year lows seen earlier this week, as President Trump reportedly nixed a plan to implement major reforms to the federal Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).
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California cap-and-trade opponent moves on in gubernatorial primary
An anti-carbon market businessman will square off against California’s lieutenant governor in the state’s gubernatorial election this fall, as voters on Tuesday defeated a measure that would have given Republicans more control over cap-and-trade funds.
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