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*PREMIUM LISTING - The Gold Standard Foundation seeks a highly motivated individual to join our standard development team. This is a full-time position responsible for working on regular standard updates to align with Gold Standard’s strategy and policy, new market developments, review of new carbon accounting methodologies and managing the VVB approval process.

*PREMIUM LISTING - The Gold Standard Foundation seeks a highly motivated individual to join our Standard Development team to lead the development of innovative and robust methodologies, with a focus on mitigation solutions under the energy scope.

*PREMIUM LISTING - The Gold Standard Foundation seeks a highly motivated individual to join our standard development team. This is a full-time position responsible for working on regular standard updates to align with Gold Standard’s strategy and policy, new market developments, review of new carbon accounting methodologies and managing the VVB approval process.

*PREMIUM LISTING - The Gold Standard Foundation seeks a highly motivated individual to join our standard development team to support and drive the standard development and improvements with a focus on mitigation solutions under LUF scope.

Opposition to unveil plan to reverse biodiversity loss rather than simply halting it, which is government’s current target

The government will not be able to achieve its nature targets by 2030, even though they are “embarrassingly poor”, the shadow environment minister and leading wildlife groups have said.

Next week at the Cop15 biodiversity conference in Montreal, Labour will unveil a detailed “science-led, joined-up plan to tackle the climate and ecological emergency”. The plan will aim to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030, rather than simply halting it, which is the government’s current target.

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Experts from Unesco and IUCN find climate change threatens reef’s values and work to improve water quality is too slow

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A UN-backed mission to the Great Barrier Reef has concluded the world’s biggest coral reef system should be placed on a list of world heritage sites in danger.

The long-awaited report on the 10-day mission that took place in March said climate change was presenting a “serious challenge” to the values that saw the reef inscribed as a global wonder in 1981.

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Carbon prices retreated on Monday, breaking a three-day winning streak as gloomy macroeconomic sentiment prevailed, while some profit taking was also identified after prices reached a four-week high on Friday.

Former archbishop of Canterbury says richest nations and individuals must take lead on loss and damage

Rich countries and wealthy individuals must urgently consider how to come up with the cash needed to help poor countries afflicted by climate disaster, the former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has said.

At the Cop27 UN climate summit in Egypt, which finished a week ago after a marathon final session ran more than 50 hours over deadline, the first steps were taken to establish a loss and damage fund for vulnerable countries stricken by extreme weather.

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Saudi Arabian energy company ACWA Power has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with two state-owned Thai companies to launch a $7 billion deal to develop green hydrogen capacity in the Southeast Asian country for domestic use and exports, it announced over the weekend.

A natural gas subsidiary of state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) has teamed up with a local government in Hainan province to jointly work on forestry carbon sink projects, as it prepares to get into the domestic offset market despite the years-long absence of national voluntary regulations.

Company cites decisions by pair of sustainability organizations to take away their endorsements of the US lobster fishing industry

Environmental groups are once again at loggerheads with leading politicians and fishing businesses in New England in the wake of a decision by high-end US retail giant Whole Foods to stop selling Maine lobster.

Whole Foods recently said that it will stop selling lobster from the Gulf of Maine at hundreds of its stores around the country. The company cited decisions by a pair of sustainability organizations to take away their endorsements of the US lobster fishing industry.

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A Singapore-based company has formed a partnership with a German certification provider to help companies measure their emissions and develop a rating system of their performance, they announced on Monday.

China's energy regulator on Friday issued a draft of trading regulations for the country's spot power market, a move considered crucial to make a transition towards market-based electricity pricing and improve the effectiveness of the national emissions trading scheme (ETS).

Grant Shapps says there will be more onshore wind projects ‘where communities are in favour of it’

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Downing Street appears likely to allow new onshore wind projects in England after years of an effective ban, Grant Shapps has indicated, with ministers giving way in the face of a growing backbench Conservative rebellion.

Shapps, the business and energy secretary, said there would be more onshore wind projects “where communities are in favour of it”, which would mean the end of a de facto block on such projects since 2014 under planning rules.

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The International Carbon Credit Advisor will join Aurecon's advisory business.

Aurecon is looking for a caron market analyst to join its advisory business.

The Andrews government has signalled a major shakeup of Victoria’s energy sector. But are they enough to bring the state’s energy prices down and reduce emissions? Ariel Liebman, Ariel Liebman Director, Monash Energy Institute and Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Scientists trying to replicate 1964 study say results reveal alarming deterioration in river’s ecosystem

A survey of mussels has revealed an alarming deterioration in the River Thames ecosystem since the 1960s, according to a study.

Scientists attempting to replicate a 1964 survey of freshwater bivalves in a stretch of the Thames near Reading found striking results, as native mussel populations had crashed by almost 95%. One native species, the depressed river mussel, had vanished completely, and the remaining species were much smaller for their age, reflecting slower growth.

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Voluntary carbon offset provider Climate Impact Partners retired nearly 6 million Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) units in November, as issuance of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) dropped off.

Queensland says it wants to establish a local wind turbine manufacturing industry to supply its new giga-watt scale projects.

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