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As part of the Portfolio Management team you will be responsible for overseeing and developing business for the sales of carbon credits and Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). You will also take responsibility for research and analysis of new opportunities in environmental markets in different countries around the world.

As part of the Portfolio Management team, you will be primarily responsible for structuring and closing carbon credit sourcing transactions. In addition, you will develop business with project developers, retailers, intermediaries and wholesale companies active in carbon markets.

As a Portfolio Manager you will be responsible for developing solutions in renewable energy markets around the world. You will work on commercial agreements with project developers, retailers, intermediaries and corporate consumers active in voluntary renewable energy markets.

Naturalist tells leaders at UN climate summit that fate of world is in their hands

The collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon, Sir David Attenborough has told the UN climate change summit in Poland.

The naturalist was chosen to represent the world’s people in addressing delegates of almost 200 nations who are in Katowice to negotiate how to turn pledges made in the 2015 Paris climate deal into reality.

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Laser labs sense gravitational waves from a black hole collision at least five billion light-years away.

Three astronauts from Russia, Canada and the US left from Kazakhstan on Monday morning.

Sum available for 2021-25 represents doubling of current five-year plan

The World Bank is to make about $200bn (£157bn) available to fund action on climate change from 2021-25, helping countries adapt to the effects of warming and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The sum represents a doubling of the five-year investment plan put in place after the landmark Paris agreement of 2015.

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The World Bank Group will double its climate spending to $40 billion per year over 2021-2025, it said Monday, with funding renewable energy and creating markets for climate business among its priorities.

WRI is seeking an innovative and technically strong expert to fill the role of Subnational Climate Action Associate.

Volunteers catch and tag migratory waders as the birds arrive to spend winter on the East Anglian coast

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Ecofys – A Navigant Company is currently recruiting a Senior Consultant for the Smart Policies team in our Berlin office. As part of a dynamic team, you will work on projects for public and private sector clients in various areas of national, European and international energy and climate policy and international cooperation, in particular with the MENA region.

This position is central to maintaining and advancing the University of Waterloo (UW) as a leading centre for research and knowledge mobilization on the impacts of global climate change and the transition to a decarbonized and climate-resilient society in Canada and around the world.

The OECD is looking for an energy innovation programme officer for its Clean Energy Transition team.

President Trump's actions are restricting global efforts to cut carbon, a study suggests.

There was an exodus of climate experts from the White House after the 2016 election – but they still turn up to UN talks

In a hallway beneath the UN climate change headquarters in Bonn, Germany, Sue Biniaz leans on a table, scribbling some thoughts on a piece of paper.

It’s May 2018, three years after representatives from nearly 200 countries convened in France in an extraordinary display of international unity and agreed to keep global warming below 2C and to pursue a tougher target of 1.5C.

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European firms are making faster progress in refusing to insure polluting firms, says campaign group Unfriend Coal

UK and US insurers are lagging far behind European firms when it comes to divesting from coal-heavy businesses and refusing to insure them, campaigners have warned.

At least 19 major insurers holding more than $6tn in assets – a fifth of the industry’s global assets – have now divested from coal, according to a report from the Unfriend Coal campaign, which represents a coalition of a dozen environmental groups including Greenpeace, 350.org and the Sierra Club.

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Buybacks also recommended for those affected by PFAS contamination from defence bases across Australia

A group of MPs from across the political divide has urged the commonwealth to consider compensation and property buybacks for people affected by contamination from toxic firefighting chemicals which leached off defence bases and into soil and waterways across Australia.

On Monday a joint parliamentary committee, which for months has been investigating the defence department’s firefighting foam contamination scandal, handed down its long-awaited report, recommending the government “assist property owners and businesses in affected areas for demonstrated, quantifiable financial losses associated with PFAS contamination that has emanated from defence bases”.

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Indian mining firm Adani has announced scaled-down plans for its planned Queensland coal mine, which it will now fund itself. But there are still many questions hanging over the project. Samantha Hepburn, Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Jordi Casamitjana wants to have ethical veganism recognised as a philosophical belief, in a landmark legal action.

The Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, Shane Rattenbury, is calling for at least four new members to join the ACT Climate Change Council.

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