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The aim of this traineeship is to complement the theoretical education of the trainee and to provide her/him with introductory training to orientate her/his career in the domain of environmental advocacy and campaign work. We are seeking a dynamic, creative and enthusiastic intern to support our policy work. The intern will report to a thematic policy lead while working closely with the entire CMW team.

You work primarily on the design and evaluation of international carbon market approaches, including Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and the voluntary carbon market. A key focus is supporting Oeko-Institut’s work on the Carbon Credit Quality Initiative. You also contribute to research and consultancy projects in related areas, such as the quantification and accounting of greenhouse gas emissions or climate finance.

With information across global compliance and voluntary carbon markets fragmented and often confusing, the World Bank aims to cleanse the landscape by launching a free-to-access metadata layer that will link, aggregate, and harmonise underlying registry data to enable transparent accounting as per Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

Critics comparing the voluntary carbon market to the wild west are missing the point and risk undermining decades of progress on climate change, argues Renat Heuberger, CEO and co-founder of South Pole.

A fast-growing green fintech firm struck a multi-year partnership with a start-up carbon project investor on Thursday, with the aim of developing large-scale, "high-quality" carbon credit projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Offset standard manager and developer Verra on Thursday proposed a new carbon credit label for nature-based removal units that would signify greater attention paid to accurate emissions baselines and preventing leakage.

The European Parliament on Thursday greenlighted plans to force airlines to blend at least 2% of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) as early as 2025 and raise longer-term ambition for a law aimed at tackling one of the core drivers of aviation pollution.

European carbon prices rose for a second day on Thursday as the market appeared to be consolidating in its medium term range, while energy prices continued to advance as Germany sought Canadian help to boost gas flows from Russia.

Industry calls for roles to be added to job shortage list as eight in 10 report serious problems finding qualified workers

Dairy farmers are warning that a chronic shortage of workers is hitting milk production and further fuelling food price inflation, and are calling for urgent action to stop the situation getting worse.

Eight in 10 farm owners looking for workers said they had received very few or zero applications from people with the right experience or qualifications, in response to a survey by Arla Foods, the UK’s largest dairy co-operative.

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Tianjin is set to roll out a small-scale offset scheme targeting households and individuals, making the northern Chinese city the latest in a growing line of regions seeking to expand the scope of offset markets.

Australia’s largest general insurer has teamed up with a First Nations-led carbon project developer to support the creation of new carbon farming developments across the country.

Alan Lovell says he sees no conflict of interest in Environment Agency role and having shares in Progressive Energy

The prospective new chair of the Environment Agency is refusing to divest his shareholding in a hydrogen and carbon capture company chosen for a major government project.

Alan Lovell stood down as a director of Progressive Energy last month, according to Companies House records, two days after being announced as the preferred candidate for the role running England’s environmental watchdog.

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As solar PV waste grows to tens of millions tonnes a year by 2040, researchers say the recycling market will boom – as will demand for recycled components.

The post Solar panel recycling market to be worth billions by 2030, say researchers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Singapore and Morocco have signed an agreement to co-operate on projects that will facilitate the transfer of carbon credits between the two countries under Article 6 guidelines, they announced Thursday.

A range of factors is behind the rise in electricity prices, but net zero isn’t one of them

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Energy markets and electricity systems are complicated beasts at the best of times, but throw in war, extreme weather, policy dysfunction and a pandemic and the picture gets even murkier.

However, some of Australia’s conservative commentators seem to think there is one thing to blame for the country’s rising electricity prices and the threat of power outages: it’s all the fault of “net zero”.

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Victoria seeks feedback on its proposed grid investment framework, as it prepares to replace the state's coal plants with Renewable Energy Zones.

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Repeated breakdowns and coal supply shortages have led to a significant ratings downgrade of EnergyAustralia.

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Construction works starts at the Wylong solar farm in central NSW, which will supply power to the National Broadband Network.

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Hives along state’s central and mid-north coasts and in north-west destroyed as bee lockdown continues

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More than 15 million bees have been euthanised across 31 infected premises in New South Wales as the fight to contain the varroa mite continues.

Bees from 1,533 hives have been destroyed between the NSW central and mid-north coasts, as well as at Narrabri in the state’s north-west, the state’s agriculture minister, Dugald Saunders, said. “It’s a significant number of bees,” he said.

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