International Climate Finance Intern (Fordham IPED Students Only)
About The Position
NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) works to safeguard the Earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. NRDC combines the power of more than 3 million members and online activists with the expertise of some 800 policy advocates, lawyers, scientists, and communication experts to confront the climate crisis, protect nature, ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities. As an international nonprofit environmental organization, NRDC is working to address the world’s most urgent environmental challenges, and advance innovative, science-based, and enforceable solutions. Since our founding in 1970, NRDC has helped craft and deliver many of America’s foundational environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. Today, we continue to lead in advancing and defending strong environmental protections at the local, state, federal and international levels, as well as through the marketplace. Our team works across the United States and around the world, from offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., as well as in Beijing, and New Delhi (a subsidiary of NRDC India Pvt. Ltd.). Supported by our members and online activists, NRDC is driving impactful solutions that confront the climate crisis, defend nature and safeguard public health across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. At NRDC, we believe lasting change happens when people bring their talent, passion, and expertise together for a common purpose: to build a cleaner, healthier, and more resilient world. Learn more at nrdc.org
Requirements
- Currently a graduate student from Fordham's IPED program.
- Excellent research and writing skills.
- Self-motivation and ability to work efficiently and meet deadlines.
- High proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word and Outlook.
Responsibilities
- Support the team in analyzing historic MDB finance to renewable electricity, transmission and distribution systems, energy storage, and energy efficiency.
- Help develop benchmarks for each clean electricity category that the MDBs should grow towards in 2030 given the overall international climate finance commitments the MDBs announced and the global clean electricity goals that countries set at COP28 and COP29.
- Support the team in tracking multi-year climate finance commitments in support of our Climate Finance Commitments Tracker.
- Help build-out more detailed assessments of where and how climate finance needs to grow to meet the 2030 overall climate finance goals and the 2035 adaptation finance goals.
Benefits
- paid internship with a stipend equivalent to $10,000.00 paid bi-weekly over the course of the assignment.
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Career Level
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