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This role is responsible for ensuring we proactively engage our biggest corporate clients and help them communicate their programme with integrity, in a way that makes sense for their business, and which adds value to them.

The role is focused on building commercial partnerships for International Nature Based Solutions (NBS) projects under recognised voluntary carbon standards.  

Representatives from the three EU institutions agreed on two concessions for heavy industry under the EU ETS reform bill in resumed trilogue negotiations on Monday, but left most issues for later. 

Australia has a vast network of undersea cables and pipelines. Bolstering their security must be a priority. Claudio Bozzi, Lecturer in Law, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Global Carbon Council (GCC) issued 235,000 carbon credits on Monday, more than doubling its tally so far, as the standards registry starts to work through a large pipeline of projects.

Petroleum company Ecopetrol on Monday announced it has sold carbon offset-backed crude oil to a US-based refiner, the first of several such shipments planned by the Colombian entity that omits Scope 3 output.

Use of toxins must be justified, but the sad reality is a similarly effective alternative to the lethal pesticide doesn’t exist

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We may not like it, but killing feral animals is an action we need to take if we truly care for Australia’s environment and wildlife.

As an island nation with a trove of unique wildlife that evolved in isolation, Australia is highly susceptible to invasive species.

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Prices drifted over the week in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) that continued to be undermined by thin liquidity and negative press about a lack of integrity in the market amid the global macro-economic slowdown.

Incomes have stalled while the rich get richer. It’s clear the obsession with GDP has to change

Liz Truss was clear what she wanted. “I have three priorities for our economy,” the prime minister told the Conservative party conference last week: “Growth, growth and growth.” But her problem is that this is not actually clear at all.

The definition of economic growth is an expansion of national income, as measured by GDP (gross domestic product). Since the 1950s it has been the objective of more or less all governments to have GDP growing every year.

Michael Jacobs is professor of political economy at the University of Sheffield

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The EU will pay Estonia €354 million in grants to support the phaseout of oil shale in energy production that accounts for over 50% of the country's total greenhouse gas emissions, and also approved €1.1 billion in Slovakian measures to help ETS-exposed industry to decarbonise.

European air carriers are purchasing VERs with questionable environmental integrity and failing to provide enough transparency about their carbon credit practices more generally, said an NGO-commissioned report published Monday.

Alexander Darwall lodges papers seeking end to camping on moorland without permission

A wealthy landowner is pressing ahead with legal moves that could threaten the right of backpackers and youth groups to wild camp on Dartmoor.

A small group of right-to-roam activists built a protest camp over the weekend on the estate owned by Alexander Darwall and his wife, who are challenging the legal basis of bylaws that allow for wild camping on the moor, despite a growing outcry from local people, hikers and environmentalists.

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The London Stock Exchange on Monday outlined a set of listing rules for firms that finance carbon credit-generating projects as part of an aim to drive growth in the voluntary carbon market and increase its transparency.

EUAs fell back from Friday's nine-day high settlement price early on Monday, and went on to drop as much as 4.4% in a thin market as traders waited for fresh signals on market reform and on the EU's plan to auction more EUAs to fund its REPowerEU initiative.

Beccy Speight says charity coalition plans to step up campaign against changes posing threat to wildlife

The head of the RSPB says the bird charity is ruling nothing out as it organises a mobilisation of millions of people against what it calls the government’s “attack on nature”.

Beccy Speight dismissed accusations by Conservative MPs that the group was lying to its members and pursuing a marketing drive, as it leads a coalition campaigning against the government over key “growth” policies which it argues will damage wildlife and nature.

The removal from the statute books of 570 laws derived from EU directives that make up the bedrock of environmental regulations in the UK, covering sewage pollution, water quality and clean air. These include the habitat regulations, which have protected areas for wildlife for more than 30 years.

The ending of the moratorium on fracking.

The creation of 38 low-tax investment zones from Cornwall to Cumbria where environmental protections are to be relaxed to encourage development.

The feared scrapping of the post-Brexit environmental land management scheme (Elms), which pays farmers to enhance nature.

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Monica Medina will be responsible for biodiversity and water resources, announces state department ahead of Cop15

The United States has created a new diplomatic role to show the country’s commitment to tackling the biodiversity crisis ahead of Cop15 in Montreal, Canada, where the next decade of nature targets will be drawn up.

Monica Medina, a former military officer who started her governmental career in 1989 as senior counsel to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, has been named special envoy for biodiversity and water resources.

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Low pressure from Atlantic likely to usher in 70mph gusts from Friday night

The UK and northern Europe are likely to be the windiest places on the planet this weekend. Areas of low pressure, driven by a strengthening jet stream, is forecast to barrel in from the Atlantic on Friday, with some of these likely to become named storms.

Up to 70mph (112 km/h) gusts are expected to batter the west coast of Ireland and the Faroe Islands, with Norway’s western coastline also likely to experience strong winds into Saturday. Further stormy conditions are possible the following week when areas of deep, low pressure arrive from the west.

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Australia’s biggest seller of carbon credits to the government has teamed up with one of the market’s biggest critics to voice “shared concerns” about the integrity of the scheme, calling for urgent reform.