JOB VACANCIES: Deadline 25 November 2020 -International Consultant, Downscaling Climate Projections, REMA

Organization:Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) Position:International Consultant, Downscaling Climate Projections Duty Station:Home based with travel to Rwanda

JOB VACANCIES: Deadline 8 December 2020 - Chief Technical Advisor, REMA

Organization:Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) Position:Chief Technical Advisor Duty Station:Home based with travel to Rwanda Deadline for Application:8 December 2020

JOB VACANCIES: Deadline 30 November 2020 - Ocean Modeler, CCMC

Organization:Foundation Euro-Mediterrenean Center on Climate Change (CCMC) Position:Ocean Modeler Duty Station:Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Deadline for Application:30 November 2020

Use Your Microwave Less, Reduce CO2 Emissions

Use your microwave 10 minutes less a day and reduce your CO2 emissions by up to 610 pounds a year, depending upon the source of your electricity.

10 Sustainable Mattress Companies: Choosing Your Perfect Green Sleep.

Sleep is bliss, but it isn’t always environmentally responsible. Many mattresses contain a toxic brew of chemicals — from flame-retardant chemicals like polybrominated diphenyl ethers to formaldehyde and mercury — as well as petroleum-based ingredients.

Another Reason to Recycle Cartons — and Other Materials

Good news to report: The COVID-19 pandemic has not stopped people from recycling. In fact, some people are recycling even more.

Better Breathing: 6 of the Best Plants for Indoor Air Quality

The average American spends 90% of their time indoors. Unfortunately, indoor air quality ranks as one of the top threats to human health, according to the EPA.

How African leadership made the Ban Treaty a reality.

Africa’s contribution to the field of nuclear non-proliferation has long been ignored. It is time to recognise and embrace it.

Water for everyone!

ESP TRAINING COURSE (FREE) : Transition to Offshore Wind - 3/12/2020

Investigation of the operational performance and efficiency of an alternative PV + PCM concept.

  A very recent paper of Renewable & Sustainable Energy Lab (ReSEL) is recently published in the Solar Energy, Vol. 211, 15 Nov. 2020, Pp 1283-1300  

Trump's latest order spreads fear among government scientists.

The directive could make it easier to fire some agency researchers and hire others for political reasons.

Climate crisis: Global temperature rise of 2C ‘would release billions of tonnes of soil carbon’.

Soils could release equivalent of four times China’s emissions over past century, scientists warn. Soil is a huge, but little-recognised, carbon storage facility.

Weatherwatch: conditions ripe in US for more dust bowl years.

Across Great Plains, dust levels rising due to farming methods and climate emergency.

Antarctica is Earth's one virus-free continent: science fights to keep it that way.

The giant land is the only place on Earth not touched by Covid. A British team is on a mission to protect it while also doing vital research

Businesses making eco-friendly claims to be vetted by watchdog.

Competition and Markets Authority says rising demand may lead to ‘greenwashing’. Companies that market their products or services as eco-friendly are to be scrutinised by the UK competition watchdog to make sure they live up to the claim and do not mislead consumers.

Twice the renewables capacity needed to meet 2050 targets.

Findings from Cornwall Insight's 'All-Island forward curve' show that Ireland will need to more than double its renewable capacity over the next 25 years if it is to meet net zero emissions by 2050.

Colorado’s Platte River utility to close Rawhide coal plant 16 years early, cut CO2 90% by 2030

Platte River Power Authority is moving forward with a plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 90% of 2005 levels by 2030, which will mean shuttering the Rawhide Unit 1 coal plant north of Wellington and possibly building a new natural gas-powered plant.

United Nations releases special 2020 broadcast calling for collective action.

On the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and the 5th anniversary of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals – in the midst of a pandemic radically transforming our economies and societies – this 30-minute film tells the story of the world as it is, as it was, and as it could be.

As the election hangs in the balance, the US officially exits the Paris Climate Agreement.

On 4 November, the US officially exits the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.