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*Director, Financial Innovations, Verra – Remote
*Manager of Technology Solutions, Verra – Remote
New Zealand is reviewing its outdated conservation laws. Here's why we must find better ways of getting people on board
Power And Emissions Trader, CEPSA – Madrid
Facilitator Consultant for Mobilizing Article 6 Trading Structures, GGGI – Cambodia
Can you really carbon offset a power station? It should be a last resort | Graham Readfearn
EnergyAustralia is building a regular fossil fuel power station and buying carbon offsets based on its emissions
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“At EnergyAustralia, we’re already building Australia’s first carbon offset power station,” says a smiling tradie in hi-vis overlooking a construction site.
The line is from EnergyAustralia’s new TV ad that has been appearing in prime time slots accompanied by Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 classic tune, Don’t Stop.
Continue reading...Technical Specialist, Climate & Conservation Finance, Fauna & Flora International – Cambridge, UK
AGL coal closures inch forward, but fall well short of market plans and climate needs
AGL brings forward the closure of its last two coal generators, but it still falls well short of market forecasts and climate needs.
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*Chief Program Management Officer, Verra – Remote
*Manager, Climate Finance and Markets, Verra – Remote
Senior Technical Manager, Natural Climate Solutions, Verra – Remote
California compliance offset issuances maintain slow start to 2022
Rowdy rafter of turkeys wreak havoc at Nasa’s Silicon Valley campus
The US Department of Agriculture has been called in to trap and relocate the feisty fowl before they begin nesting
A rafter of rowdy turkeys have run afoul of researchers at Nasa’s Ames Center in Mountain View, California.
Nearly two dozen birds have been creating chaos at the Bay Area space agency outpost, pecking at cars, blocking traffic, disrupting flights at the nearby Moffett federal airfield, and blanketing most everything with their droppings. They have become such a nuisance that officials from the US Department of Agriculture have been called in to trap and relocate them – before they begin nesting and hatch a new generation of pillaging poults.
Continue reading...Neanderthal extinction not caused by brutal wipe out
Time for a reckoning: Cricket Australia, fossil fuel sponsorship and climate change
Most Conservative MPs support net zero, says Tory environment group
Body representing MPs and peers insists vast majority support climate plans despite vocal backbenchers
The “vast majority” of Conservative MPs support the government’s net zero climate plans despite increasingly vocal opposition from a small number of backbenchers, according to a Tory environment group.
On Tuesday the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG) of 19 Conservatives was accused of attempting to derail the government’s green agenda, linking it to the cost-of-living crisis and calling for cuts to green taxes and an increase in fossil fuel production.
Continue reading...Renewables auctions to be held annually in green energy push
Mining industry would be wise to advocate for global carbon tax -report
Wanted lost species: blind salamander, tap-dancing spider and ‘fat’ catfish
A Texas-based group has drawn up a new list of as part of its quest to find species lost to science and possibly extinct
A blind salamander, a tap-dancing spider and a “fat” catfish that has been likened to the Michelin man are among a list of vanished species that one US-based conservation group is aiming to rediscover in the wild and help protect.
The Texas-based group, called Re:wild, has drawn up a new list of the “25 most wanted lost species” as part of its quest to find species lost to science and possibly extinct.
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