International Climate Policy Intern

IMPORTANT:  This Advertiser has requested that applicants MUST be National Residents / Valid Work Permit-holders.  Other applicants need not apply.

 

The World Resources Institute’s Climate and Energy Program seeks a highly motivated full-time intern for a period of 3-6 months to join its International Climate Initiative. The intern will provide research and administrative support for the implementation of a strategy to build, by 2015, an international enabling environment capable of generating collective climate action in line with the science. The overall strategy consists of three pillars to pry open a new window of opportunity to drive low carbon climate resilient development. The first pillar aims to align economic incentives with low carbon climate resilient development; the second pillar aims to strengthen rules within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) so that it is ready to be a point of reconvergence for increased ambition by 2015; the third pillar is designed to address the political aspects of the enabling environment with a specific focus on the multilateral processes that provide a venue for discussing interrelated geopolitical issues.

 

In particular, the intern will carry out activities under the second pillar to build rules within the UNFCCC, particularly with regard to: the measurement, reporting and verification of country actions (MRV); increasing the ambition of developed and developing country pledges in an equitable manner; and the establishment of a legal framework under the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action to formalize and coordinate country commitments. This work is the centre piece of our International Climate Initiative and consequently offers great exposure to WRI’s experts and the key issues in international climate diplomacy in the aftermath of COP 17. The successful candidate will also contribute to the work of the broader team across the three pillars of the strategy as needed.

 

The successful candidate will be self motivated and hard working with excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills. A good understanding of the technical and political issues at play in the UNFCCC negotiations, in particular around ambition, legal form and equity is a strong advantage.

 

Rolling review of applications with a view to hiring the successful candidate in early Ferbuary 2012.