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South Pole is looking for a carbon pricing and climate policy intern in a 40-80% position for 6-12 months.

NRDC is seeking a Climate Advisor to work with the City of San José as part of the American Cities Climate Challenge (ACCC).

The government of Jamaica is seeking a consultant to provide private sector entities with training in project development with the aim of enhancing their capacity in building their business case to better access resources of the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

Demonstrate proven management skills and the capacity to provide leadership to an innovative, dynamic, diverse, and high-performing organisation

To meet the pressing global need to scale-up climate finance, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. As part of our strategy for growth, BASE is seeking an entrepreneurial and accomplished senior specialist to maintain and grow BASE’s services and global scope.

The Expert will provide support and guidance to private sector actors, in particular small-scale entities, and their supporters to engage and benefit from FLEGT processes.

Diving tours run by former fishermen have lifted the villagers out of poverty and given new protection to overfished marine life

Fishermen-turned-entrepreneurs who have been financing the protection of endangered whale sharks in the Philippines have hit on a successful scheme to help lift their coastal community out of poverty, new research has found.

A group of 58 fishermen from the town of Oslob who were struggling to feed their families turned to the world’s largest fish species to set up a community based dive company in 2011. It has since become an international hotspot for tourists to swim with the sharks, attracting more than 750,00 visitors in the first five years and amounting to $18.4m (£14.7bn) in ticket sales over the same period.

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Official event praising coal, oil and gas met with laughter and chants of ‘shame on you’

A Trump administration presentation extolling the virtues of fossil fuels at the UN climate talks in Poland has been met with guffaws of laughter and chants of “Shame on you”.

Monday’s protest came during a panel discussion by the official US delegation, which used its only public appearance to promote the “unapologetic utilisation” of coal, oil and gas. Although these industries are the main source of the carbon emissions that are causing global warming, the speakers boasted the US would expand production for the sake of global energy security and planned a new fleet of coal plants with technology it hoped to export to other countries.

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The COP24 climate summit in Katowice, Poland has shifted into high gear this week with the arrival of ministers, taking over from government officials who last week made limited progress on the Paris Agreement rulebook.

Researchers discover urban male túngara frogs call more, and with more complex vocalisations, than rural peers

Living in a forest might sound romantic, but city life makes males more attractive to the opposite sex – at least if you are a túngara frog.

Researchers have discovered that urban males of the species have more attractive calls than their rural peers.

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The ice streams that flow down the flanks of Asia's high mountains are moving slower as they thin.

‘Ecological memory’ shows cumulative impact of climate change, say scientists

Great Barrier Reef corals that survived bleaching in 2016 were more resistant to a second marine heatwave the following year, “astonished” scientists have observed.

A study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, outlines how a process called “ecological memory” emerged in the northernmost reefs during back-to-back heatwaves in 2016 and 2017.

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Having dug and drilled into the Earth, scientists can now estimate how much life exists at depth.

Earth would be a frozen lump of rock without the energy created from our nearest star.

Voyager 2, a space probe launched in 1977, becomes only the second human-made object to enter the space between the stars.

The UK claims to be a leader in climate change - but is it?

Hitachi’s £16bn Wylfa station on Anglesey is next proposed project after Hinkley Point C

Fresh doubts have been raised over prospects for the UK’s new nuclear power programme after a report that Hitachi is considering axing plans for a plant in Wales.

The Japanese conglomerate’s mooted 2.9GW nuclear power station on Anglesey is next in line in the UK’s nuclear plans after EDF Energy’s 3.2GW Hinkley Point C scheme in Somerset.

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Snack maker will install collection points across UK as well as free courier service

Walkers has said a scheme to recycle its plastic crisp packets is not a publicity stunt but a genuine attempt to address environmental concerns.

The company launched the initiative after a social media campaign titled #PacketInWalkers urged the company to make its packaging recyclable. Consumers published pictures of themselves online posting empty crisp packets addressed to Walkers, forcing Royal Mail to urge protesters to put the packets in an envelope before posting them.

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White House efforts to promote fossil fuels are set to be upstaged by investors moving away from coal.

The New Zealand government will announce a first set of decisions on reforming its emissions trading scheme on Dec. 12, it said Monday.