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*PREMIUM LISTING - As Verra’s Manager of Asia-Pacific, your day might include attending meetings with government officials and key market partners to further increase understanding and adoption of our standards, staying up to date on carbon pricing initiatives at national and regional levels (for example Indo-Pacific Carbon Offset Scheme-IPCOS) in the Asia Pacific region, and speaking publicly at conferences and engaging Asia-Pacific government representatives around their climate, sustainable development and plastics leadership goals and needs.

Human exposure to 2,4-D has substantially risen despite a multitude of health and environmental concerns

One in three people across America have detectable levels of a toxic herbicide linked to cancers, birth defects and hormonal imbalances, a major nationwide survey has found.

Human exposure to the herbicide 2,4-D has substantially risen amid expanding use among farmers despite a multitude of health and environmental concerns, according to the first nationally representative study evaluating the footprint of the chemical.

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*PREMIUM LISTING - Verra is creating the new role of Director, Financial Innovations, to lead the development and implementation of Verra’s strategy for standards-related financial, investment, and insurance innovations.

*PREMIUM LISTING - To support Verra's ability to respond to standards-related technology opportunities in the rapidly growing voluntary carbon market, we are looking for a Manager of Technology Solutions to be an integral part of our Innovations Team.

Conservation efforts can result in conflict between different interest groups, but outcomes could improve if we allowed a greater degree of public participation, beyond mere consultation. Giles Dodson, Senior Lecturer, Humanities and Social Sciences, Massey University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The successful candidate, reporting into the Head of Power and Emissions Trading, will work within Cepsa Gas and Power.

The role of the Facilitator will be to serve as the project interface in country and operate as a liaison between the Government of Cambodia and the GGGI MATS Cambodia project team and stakeholders.

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.

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FFI is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Technical Specialist, Climate & Conservation Finance.  Responding to the urgent need to scale initiatives that deliver high-quality NbS on land, and at sea, you will play a vital role in developing funding models and sustainable financing approaches to underpin the design and implementation of pioneering NbS projects across FFI’s global portfolio.

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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*PREMIUM LISTING - Verra’s Program Team is looking for a Chief Program Management Officer to oversee the Verra Program Management Team, which operates the VCS, SD VISta, CCB and Plastic Waste Reduction Programs.

*PREMIUM LISTING - Verra is looking for a Manager, Climate Finance and Markets, to help evaluate and interact with the broader policy and market contexts in which its carbon standards are used and to help develop the growth and maturation of existing applications – such as carbon markets – and prospects for newer applications.

Verra’s Program Team is looking for a Senior Technical Manager, Natural Climate Solutions, to oversee the technical project and program issues related to natural climate solutions (NCS) and ensure that they foster climate impact and generate related environmental and social benefits.

California regulator ARB has awarded less than half the number of compliance offsets through the first three issuances of 2022 than the same period last year, according to agency data published Wednesday.

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.

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New fossils challenge ideas that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals after arriving from Africa.

It’s hard to play cricket in sweltering conditions or amid bushfire smoke. Is it time for Cricket Australia to cut ties with fossil fuel sponsors? Brett Hutchins, Professor of Media and Communications, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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.

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The energy secretary says renewable power is the best way to shield the UK from volatile gas prices.