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To contribute to the UK government work to address climate change, including diplomatic action to support delivery of the 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) in November 2021.

This is a key senior role within the organisation which is responsible for the calculations, analysis and modelling of soil sampling results from AgriProve’s soil carbon projects.

Finite Carbon is seeking a Forest Carbon Analyst to support the development of Finite’s growing portfolio of forest offset projects.

The purpose of this role is to co-lead South Pole’s Projects & Markets Business Development in the Structured Carbon Deals business Practice in close coordination with the Global Director Structured Deals.

Minnesota pet owners warned not to release fish into wild, where they wreak havoc on native species

Authorities in Minnesota have appealed to aquarium owners to stop releasing pet fish into waterways, after several huge goldfish were pulled from a local lake.

Officials in Burnsville, about 15 miles south of Minneapolis, said released goldfish can grow to several times their normal size and wreak havoc on indigenous species.

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After 46 years, I’m lowering my expectations. Who needs more than ice-cream and a few salty snacks?

Summer is here: I can smell it (lighter-fuel-doused charcoal and the ammonia punch of After Bite dabbed on giant angry weals) and hear it (strimmers and mowers and the ice-cream van). I can feel it too: a slither of itchy unease at the core of my being, a tight-chested sense that everything is slipping out of my control when I see a few sun icons on my phone.

“Which summer tribe are you?” the magazine quizzes ask, but I’m not mermaidcore, Riviera chic or Amish prairie cowgirl: I’m “looking longingly at cardigans” – and not just because this season has got off to such a damp and chilly start.

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Ambitious draft goals to halt biodiversity loss revealed, with proposed changes to food production expected to ‘raise eyebrows’

Eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds, halving the rate of invasive species introduction and eliminating $500bn (£360bn) of harmful environmental government subsidies a year are among the targets in a new draft of a Paris-style UN agreement for biodiversity loss.

The goals set out by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to help halt and reverse the ecological destruction of Earth by the end of the decade also include protecting at least 30% of the world’s oceans and land and providing a third of climate crisis mitigation through nature by 2030.

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EUAs gave up some of Friday’s gains in Monday morning trade as energy markets all turned lower and traders began to look ahead to Wednesday’s unveiling of EU ETS reform proposals.

People are dying. Aquatic animals are baking in their shells. Fruit is being cooked on the tree. It’s time to act

Human beings crave clarity, immediacy, landmark events. We seek turning points, because our minds are good at recognizing the specific – this time, this place, this sudden event, this tangible change. This is why we were never very good, most of us, at comprehending climate change in the first place. The climate was an overarching, underlying condition of our lives and planet, and the change was incremental and intricate and hard to recognize if you weren’t keeping track of this species or that temperature record. Climate catastrophe is a slow shattering of the stable patterns that governed the weather, the seasons, the species and migrations, all the beautifully orchestrated systems of the holocene era we exited when we manufactured the anthropocene through a couple of centuries of increasingly wanton greenhouse gas emissions and forest destruction.

This spring, when I saw the shockingly low water of Lake Powell, I thought that maybe this summer would be a turning point. At least for the engineering that turned the southwest’s Colorado River into a sort of plumbing system for human use, with two huge dams that turned stretches of a mighty river into vast pools of stagnant water dubbed Lake Powell, on the eastern Utah/Arizona border, and Lake Mead, in southernmost Nevada. It’s been clear for years that the overconfident planners of the 1950s failed to anticipate that, while they tinkered with the river, industrial civilization was also tinkering with the systems that fed it.

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Oil and gas majors Shell and PetroChina on Monday announced a 5-year supply contract for LNG backed by carbon credits in what they said was the world’s first term deal for carbon neutral LNG.

One of China’s biggest steel-producing hubs has said it will make sure carbon emissions from the industry will peak by 2025 or sooner, adding to the national government’s challenge of setting a suitable CO2 allocation level in the national emissions trading scheme.

Organization: Agora Energiewende Position: Project Lead Coal Regions Just Transition Duty Station: Berlin/Germany OR Bangkok /Thailand Deadline for Application: 8 August 2021

Organization: Agora Energiewende Position: Project Manager Coal Regions Just Transition Duty Station: Berlin/Germany OR Bangkok/Thailand Deadline for Application: 8 August 2021

Organization: Oil Change International Position: Global Campaigns Director Duty Station: Remote Deadline for Application: 25 July 2021

Organization: Oil Change International Position: Regional Program Director Duty Station: Remote Deadline for Application: 25 July 2021

Organization: Greenhouse Gas Management Institute Position: Managing Director Duty Station: Remote position. Open to candidates able to work in US Pacific time zone Deadline for Application: Until suitable applicant is found

Organization: The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Position: Carbon Analyst - Global Carbon Markets Team Duty Station: London, England, UK | Other locations where TNC has an office will be considered Deadline for Application: 22 July 2021

Wildlife authorities say the unprecedented number of deaths was primarily caused by starvation.

After years of Coalition interference - and attempts to depose its CEO - AGL has been forced to undertake emergency measures to save its business.

The post How years of Coalition interference left AGL with no option but to split in two appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Community members quit AusNet consultation group, saying they had been misinformed by network operator over its major grid transmission plans.

The post “Last straw:” Community members slam AusNet grid plans, quit consultations appeared first on RenewEconomy.