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*PREMIUM LISTING - Verra is searching for the role of Manager, Energy and Industrial Innovation to help develop and implement novel approaches to accelerate greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions and removals.

*PREMIUM LISTING - Verra seeks a Senior Program Officer for the Methodologies Team in the Program Development and Innovation Department. The Senior Program Officer will support reviews and updates of existing methodologies and the development process of new and revised methodologies for the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program. 

The EU is increasingly turning to geothermal energy to heat its buildings, as proven by the recent inauguration of the largest plant in Europe outside of volcanic Iceland in the centre of the 27-nation bloc.

Taking Root is looking for a multi-lingual, collaborative, and detail-orientated person to join our team as a Finance Manager, LATAM (Latin America). This role’s primary purpose is the analysis of everyday financial activities to make budget allocation decisions as well as provide advice and guidance to upper management on future financial plans. This role also collaborates with our local project partners to empower them to make financially savvy day-to-day business decisions to Taking Root become a global leader in tropical reforestation and forest carbon.

Passengers aboard the sub lost on a dive to the Titanic became characters in a tragic drama. The rest of us were spectators

Finally, we know. The discovery of debris on the seafloor – confirming that the missing OceanGate Titan submersible probably disintegrated in an instantaneous implosion on the same day that it disappeared – brings to a bleak end the mystery that has horrified and mesmerised people across the globe.

The plight of the five passengers – the British adventurer Hamish Harding, the businessman Shahzada Dawood and his teenage son Suleman, the French veteran explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet and OceanGate’s CEO, Stockton Rush – has dominated front pages everywhere and spurred an international response that involved four countries and may have cost millions of dollars.

Bryony Clarke is an assistant letters editor at the Guardian

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European carbon prices dropped back to test a key support level on Friday, as traders dismissed the second largest-ever auction premium, while energy prices dropped for a third session after bearish macroeconomic news late on Thursday.

Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and energy giant Chevron Singapore on Friday announced they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to form a strategic alliance focused on reducing the carbon intensity of the marine energy industry.

The head of the UN climate summit taking place in the UAE at the end of the year has underlined the important role of transparent and standardised voluntary carbon markets for closing the climate finance gap, speaking on Friday at the Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact.

A yacht competing in the Ocean Race had a close encounter with orcas on their approach to the strait of Gibraltar on Thursday, when the animals began nudging at its rudders. There were no injuries to the crew or damage to the boat. The Ocean Race said that ‘orca attacks’ on boats in the area around Gibraltar, where an individual or pod of orcas ram into a boat's hull or rudders, have become more common with boats being significantly damaged in some cases

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Almost 40 leaders to present plans for overhaul of public financial institutions including World Bank

Questions over a tax on global shipping and other big sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and how countries should go about setting up a loss and damage fund continue to be the subject of fierce discussion, as governments meet in Paris to prepare an overhaul of global development and climate finance.

Nearly 40 heads of state and government and a similar number of ministers and high-level representatives will finalise a roadmap for the reform of the world’s public finance institutions, including the World Bank, and of overseas aid and climate finance.

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The best of this week’s wildlife photographs, including busy bees, a peregrine falcon and wild horses

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Spot NZU prices extended losses on Friday as the market continued to reel from the policy options raised by a government policy consultation released at the beginning of the week.

Two soil carbon projects in Queensland were issued with 151,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) Friday, according to a company announcement, in an historic moment for the country’s carbon market.

It’s the age old battle between the NIMBYs and the YIMBYs!

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Two Korean companies have signed an agreement to conduct feasibility studies into developing international landfill emissions reduction projects under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, they announced Friday.

Amid the hand-wringing on transmission delays, more and more renewables experts argue there is huge capacity for wind, solar and storage on local networks.

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An employee of a Shell owned solar and battery group has won praise after publicly declaring his disgust at the oil giant's business strategy and quitting the business.

The post “I’m out:” Shell solar employee praised for quitting after oil giant’s climate backflip appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Nearly 50% of US bee colonies died off last year, although efforts have helped the overall bee population remain ‘relatively stable’

The US’s honeybee hives just staggered through the second highest death rate on record, with beekeepers losing nearly half of their managed colonies, an annual bee survey found.

But by using costly and herculean measures to create new colonies, beekeepers are somehow keeping afloat. Thursday’s University of Maryland and Auburn University survey found that even though 48% of colonies were lost in the year that ended 1 April, the number of US honeybee colonies “remained relatively stable”.

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Regulator approves new payments for Waratah Super battery, but the public won't be told. Why have battery storage deals suddenly become so secretive?

The post Regulator approves payments for world’s biggest “shock absorber” battery, but keeps it secret appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Alan Finkel says Australia can still reach its 82 per cent renewable target. "If I was betting with dollars, I would say yes. If I was betting with my life, I'd be hesitant."

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