Climate Policy Assistant

EY Center for Climate Policy (EY CCP) is an international expert hub that works with sovereigns helping them design climate policies, with corporates in need of understanding how these shifting policies will impact their business, and with developers looking to build high-quality offsetting projects. With cross-cutting expertise from legal to economic and technical backgrounds, we are well versed in various carbon pricing models and can help facilitate and inform the design of domestic climate regime, starting from the conceptual phase through the implementation.

The opportunity
We offer a wide range of services tailored to the needs of public and private sector clients. In particular, we help advance thinking about climate policies through comparative analysis, by sharing best practices, lessons learned, cautionary tales and ideas worth transplanting from jurisdictions with existing carbon measures. We monitor and scrutinize new policy developments and assist in interpreting them and assessing the impact, both on business and on sovereigns. We also assist in understanding how various layers of climate legislation might overlap and intersect, for instance with regard to compliance and voluntary markets, or between domestic policies and the Paris Agreement framework.

Visit our website to learn more: https://www.ey.com/en_pl/law/ey-center-for-climate-policy

Your key responsibilities

What you will do:

• Research and innovation:
  
  • Research of sustainability and climate policy related topics including:
    
    • international climate law, including the Paris Agreement (strong focus on Article 6), COP decisions, REDD+ Framework,
    • climate policy regulations in various jurisdictions around the world,
    • compliance carbon pricing schemes (familiarity with EU ETS and EU CBAM would be a plus),
    • voluntary carbon market standards, principles and trends,
    • climate finance trends and practices,
    • international climate litigation,
    • climate diplomacy;
  • Track changes in climate policy regulations, both at international and national level.
• Client delivery:
  
  • Research information about clients and potential clients to better understand their needs;
  • Participate in preparation of analysis for our clients in ppt, xls and doc format;
  • Make notes from internal and clients’ meetings.
• Team cooperation:
  
  • Prepare internal repositories of CCP expertise and materials;
  • Delegate assignments to more junior colleagues and support EY colleagues from other teams as you grow in your role.

Skills and attributes for success

• Open mind and willingness to learn and research new topics;
• Good team work, time management and problem solving skills. 

To qualify for the role you must have

• A graduate degree in law, economics, environmental engineering, energy engineering, international relations, sustainable development or similar;
• Proficiency in written and spoken business English. 

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Proficiency in German, French, Spanish, Russian or Arabic;
• Experience in climate policy area.