JOB VACANCIES: DEADLINE 28 April 2021 / Climate and Development Senior Policy Fellow, GRI

Organization:Grantham Research Institute (GRI) Position:Climate and Development Senior Policy Fellow Duty Station:London, England, UK Deadline for Application:28 April 2021

JOB VACANCIES: 28 April 2021 / Climate and Development Senior Policy Fellow, GRI

Organization:Grantham Research Institute (GRI) Position:Climate and Development Senior Policy Fellow Duty Station:London, England, UK Deadline for Application:28 April 2021

JOB VACANCIES: DEADLINE 31 May 2021 / Senior Advisor, Natural Climate Solutions, First Climate (Switzerland) AG

Organization:First Climate (Switzerland) AG Position:Senior Advisor, Natural Climate Solutions Duty Station:Zurich, Switzerland | or Frankfurt am Main/Bad Vilbel (Germany)

Hydrogen, sun, wind: Which ones can make the best contribution to Europe's energy transformation?

Meeting the EU’s proposed new climate targets for 2030 will require a “transformation” of the bloc’s energy system, with a renewed focus on renewables and further efforts to cut fossil fuels in buildings, transport and industry.

Biden Refuses to Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline, Despite Campaign Pledges on Tribal Relations and Climate.

Indigenous leaders and climate campaigners on Friday blasted President Joe Biden's refusal to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline during a court-ordered environmental review, which critics framed as a betrayal of his campaign prom

‘This is it. If we don’t amp up, we’re goners’: the last chance to confront the climate crisis?

When it comes to addressing the climate emergency, there have been hopeful moments before that ultimately led to nothing. Now, hope rises again

Rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide continues unabated.

Despite Covid-induced reductions in industrial activity last year, climate concerns remain. Every day, above where this column appears in the newspaper, the latest daily atmospheric carbon dioxide readings are recorded in parts per million from the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii.

Coal financing costs surge as investors opt for renewable energy.

Study finds returns must repay four times the payoff from clean energy investment to justify escalating risk.

Warnings as Alaskan glacier moving 100 times faster than normal.

The glacier’s movement may make traversal to the summit of Denali impossible for climbers this year.

John Kerry apologises for Donald Trump’s ‘renegade’ stance on climate crisis.

“We are very sorry for the last four years,” US climate envoy John Kerry said The Biden administration apologises for America becoming a climate crisis “renegade” under former President Donald Trump, climate envoy John Kerry has said.

The EU wants a carbon tax on imports – but would it be the climate solution officials expect?

The European Union is considering a new tax on imports as it tries to fight climate change, and the U.S. 

Millions of tons of nuclear wastewater from Fukushima will be dumped into the sea.

The water contains more radioactive material than the plant's managers previously stated.

A great deception’: oil giants taken to task over ‘greenwash’ ads.

ClientEarth calls for tobacco-like health warnings on advertisements from fossil fuel firms.

US and China commit to tackling climate crisis ‘with seriousness and urgency it demands’.

The world’s two biggest polluters have agreed to ramp up their ‘respective actions’ to combat the climate crisis.

Angélique Kidjo Launches Short Film Project "Mother Nature" to Promote Environmental Awetreness

How can NSW allow new coalmines while committing to net zero emissions? It’s bizarre.

New mines won’t boost world demand for Australian coal — but they will cannibalise jobs from existing coalmines.

Beijing skies turn yellow as sand and dust engulf Chinese capital.

The skies over Beijing turned yellow and air pollution soared to severe levels as a giant cloud of sand and dust particles rolled into the city, propelled by strong winds from the north of China. It is the third powerful sandstorm to hit the Chinese capital in five weeks. 

Microplastics in air ‘spiral the globe’, pollution study finds.

Fragments being blown across continents and threatening ecosystems, researchers warn.

David Remnick: ‘There is no vaccine for climate change’

The New Yorker editor on Fragile Earth, a new collection of the magazine’s climate crisis writing, the continuing dangers of Trumpism – and seeing his family for the first time in a year

Only 3 per cent of world surface is ecologically intact, research suggests.

Researchers suggest ‘targeted reintroductions of species’ to improve situation. Only 3 per cent of the world’s land remains ecologically intact, according to a new study which suggests damage to species’ habitats on a far greater scale than previously thought.