Carbon is everywhere – in trees, air, diamonds, your body, yet it typically seems pretty harmless. For the most part carbon isn’t something that you lock up under the kitchen sink to keep away from the baby, although breathing carbon monoxide will kill you, and there is the fear that we may be using carbon monoxide to cook ourselves. No matter what you believe about “global climate change,” you have to recognize that attempts to limit carbon emissions are going to become a big business concern. That means that businesses of all sizes are either going to have to invest a lot of their own resources in trading in carbon markets, or they’re going to have to outsource. If they’re going to outsource, Point Carbon is the place to go. They provide “independent news, analysis and consulting services for European and global power, gas and carbon markets” based on the information they get from their “experts in international and regional climate policy, mathematical and economic modelling, forecasting methodologies, risk management and market reporting.” If you’re interested in energy policy or markets, there couldn’t be a better place to intern than Point Carbon.
Point Carbon hasn’t been around very long – they started in 2000. That’s because carbon trading is a relatively new thing. First of all, we haven’t been worried about carbon emissions for very long. Second of all, the idea of trading pollution credits is quite young. That means that both Point Carbon and the environmental market industry have a lot of room for growth.
Right now Point Carbon is looking for a Fall intern for their carbon research team. They seem to strongly prefer graduate students in economics, business, political science / policy or environmental science, but considering that it’s late in the internship hunting season, maybe they will consider undergrads too. The internship will be for 10-20 hours per week, is paid, and is located in Washington, DC. The intern will be working with a small team to write an extensive research piece on carbon market business opportunities and may also participate in other tasks pertaining to Point Carbon’s research and education program on carbon markets. You can apply by sending a cover letter and resume to Emilie Mazzacurati at em@pointcarbon.com.
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