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Verra’s Program Team is looking for a Program Manager, Natural Climate Solutions, to support our work to foster climate impact and generate related environmental and social benefits through the VCS Program.

The Senior Project Coordinator will be responsible for assuming the responsibilities associated to both collaborator and project manager (PM) roles that include but are not limited to delivering all milestones proposed for any specific REDD+, ARR, ALM, WRC or other land-use projects, and collaborate when necessary with other members of the AFOLU team.

To reinforce our team, we are seeking an experienced sourcing manager, who can help us expand our reach across geographies and different project methodologies under the Emissions Reduction/Climate Solutions Fund (ERF/CSF), as well under voluntary standards.

A record $US501 billion ($A683 billion) was invested in the clean energy sector in the last financial year.

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Traditional ecological and cultural wisdom was embraced and valued, enhancing Western scientific knowledge of a beautiful, fragile marine area. Jim Underwood, Research Fellow and Indigenous Partnerships, Australian Institute of Marine Science Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Battery storage industry happy with new rules that recognise some of their multiple tools, but not pleased with another two-year wait.

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Dennis Tito paid $20 million to travel to the International Space Station in 2001.

A British Columbia First Nations group and two liquefied natural gas (LNG) firms on Monday announced a proposal to build a 12 million-tonne-per-year export facility, and are aiming to use carbon offsets as one of several strategies to counteract its emissions. 

The Canadian government on Monday announced an investment to develop a carbon offset system for grasslands, with several thousand tonnes of credits expected from these projects.

CORSIA-grade offset values on the voluntary carbon market (VCM) stretched all-time highs this week, while an analyst said yearly demand for voluntary emissions reductions (VERs) could eventually top out near the 2 billion-tonne mark.

Wild pigs are on every continent, except Antarctica. All up, they likely turn over the the same amount of soil as the area of Taiwan. Christopher J. O'Bryan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland Eve McDonald-Madden, Associate professor, The University of Queensland Jim Hone, Emeritus professor, University of Canberra Matthew H. Holden, Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland Nicholas R Patton, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Canterbury Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Researchers estimate the invasive species releases 4.9m metric tonnes of greenhouse gas annually by uprooting soil

The climate impact of wild pigs around the world is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions of 1.1m cars annually, according to new research.

Modelling by an international team of researchers estimates that feral pigs release 4.9m metric tonnes of carbon dioxide each year globally by uprooting soil.

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EUAs reversed early gains on Monday as prices tracked a general sell-off in oil and other asset classes, where investors fled markets exposed to rising COVID infection rates.

The lethal destruction in western states will frame the debate ahead of September’s vital election

Earlier this month, the German Greens unveiled an election poster designed to reassure voters who might be wary of their environmental radicalism. “Economy and climate without crisis”, went its slogan, suggesting that ambitious carbon reduction targets could be met without undue pain for jobs and industry. Days later, ecological crisis struck, in the form of the devastating floods that have overwhelmed western Germany, and parts of Belgium and the Netherlands. More than 190 people are so far known to have died, following flooding of an intensity and scale that has shocked scientists. The record levels of rain in north-west Europe followed record-breaking heat in the Americas. Extreme weather events are becoming the new normal, as climate models have long predicted. But some of the recent spikes have outstripped scientific predictions.

The eventual impact of the floods on Germany’s September election remains to be seen. But this disaster, which the country’s main political parties have broadly agreed was related to global warming, has thrust the climate crisis to the forefront of the campaign. On Sunday, Angela Merkel, who is standing down as chancellor, insisted that Germany needed to “up the pace in the fight against climate change”. Less impressively, the conservative frontrunner to succeed her, Armin Laschet, was caught on video sharing jokes with bystanders during a visit to a flooded town. As the president of North Rhine-Westphalia, one of the worst-hit states, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union can make amends by getting to the bottom of a lethal failure to translate satellite warnings into evacuations on the ground.

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The Western Australian environment minister is seeking an explanation after the energy company fell short of its five-year target

The energy giant Chevron has conceded its self-described world’s biggest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project has failed to meet a five-year target for burying carbon dioxide under an island off Western Australia.

Climate campaigners believe the company should be heavily fined after it acknowledged on Monday that it had not met a requirement to capture and inject underground at least 80% of emissions from a gas reservoir over the first five years of the Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) development

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It covers south-west England and large parts of Wales as the UK experiences a prolonged hot spell.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos will launch into space in the first crewed flight of his rocket ship.

The Bootleg Fire has burned an area larger than New York City and forced thousands to evacuate.

The European Commission is launching consultations on its ‘Fit for 55’ legislative proposals, in another feedback round that could influence the co-decision process among EU decision-makers.

Brazil’s rainforest stores a huge amount of CO2. As it’s released at record rates, we may have passed a tipping point

The Amazon acts as a vital organ for our entire planet. The largest rainforest in the world, it provides an important function to both the Earth’s water and carbon cycles. The region, home to abundant and highly diverse species and ecosystems, houses more than 390bn trees. These have an exceptional capacity to recycle water by pumping it from the soil back up into the atmosphere, but also play a crucial role in storing carbon: the Amazon forest stores an amount of carbon equivalent to two to three times all the CO2 emitted by the UK since 1750. When trees die, either by natural causes or deforestation, this carbon can return to the atmosphere.

Related: Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs

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