GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

In 2008, Exxon made a record $40.6 Tankers at anchor in the Houston Ship Channel started bumping into each other, but the oil kept flowing. . For years, seven of the top 10 companies on the Dow Jones Index were oil companies until 2016 when most fell out of the top 10, leaving only Exxon. What happened?

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 25, 2021

Shipping keeps the world moving; but what moves the ships? However, pressure is also mounting to address emissions from various “hard-to-decarbonize” sectors, such as shipping. The remainder of this article discusses how these trends intersect to help shipping companies that are considering riding the “hydrogen wave.”.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The shipping industry’s green transition will be stuck in the slow lane without incentives and rules to drive more private investment to diverse innovations, COP28 heard yesterday. Governments also announced plans to collaborate on green shipping corridors, including Singapore and Australia , the US and UK , and Portugal and Brazil.

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Energy Central

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Decarbonising the shipping industry seemed very aspirational until recently. Lofty goals are out there: “The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has set an ambition to reduce the carbon intensity of emissions from shipping by at least 40% by 2030, and 70% by 2050, compared with 2008 levels.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 3, 2024

Back then, Maersk, one of the world’s largest shipping companies, operated a shipyard on the city’s harbour front that manufactured some of the largest container ships in the world and employed almost 3,000 workers. This all started to change after the global financial crisis of 2007/2008.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

By year end, the company expects to have reduced its GHG emission intensity by an impressive 42% on a lower berth capacity basis since its first benchmark in 2008. Since cruise ships generate their electricity from fuel, Carnival Corporation set out to uncover every area where energy can be saved and cut the amount of fuel used.

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2024

iii Using the most energy efficient servers means far fewer physical servers are needed to meet computing demands, which has a cascading effect of avoided environmental impacts – less raw materials, manufacturing, shipping, energy use and data center space. Today, AMD EPYC processors power the most energy efficient x86 servers on the market.

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Energy Central

JANUARY 25, 2022

Shipping is a cornerstone of global trade and, as such, the GHG emissions created by shipping are significant and rising, accounting for almost 3% of global anthropogenic emissions (Faber et al. Recent projections suggest that by 2050, shipping emissions will increase by between 90- 130% of 2008 emissions by 2050 (ibid.).

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

Lush started the Black Pot program in 2008 when global recycling rates were very low. Black pots, the packaging for some of our haircare, skincare and shower products, returned by customers are shipped back to our factories where they are consolidated and sent to be chipped, washed, pelletized and remolded into new black pots.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2022

DESCRIPTION: In 2008, we set an aggressive goal to reduce our aircraft emissions intensity 20% by 2020, compared to a 2005 baseline. A global increase in shipping volume, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, delayed the retirement of certain older aircraft and led us to fall short of our goal. SOURCE: FedEx Corporation.

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3BL Media

JULY 26, 2023

It was among the first brands to be sterilized (1920s), to be “splinter-free” (1930s), to use two layers (1960s), and to offer a three-ply option (2008). Since its inception over 100 years ago, the makers of Quilted Northern® have been on the cutting edge of bath tissue.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It’s an industry you can’t put on the internet; we will need shipping in the years to come, which means we have to ensure it is sustainable in the long term,” says Stephen Fewster, Global Head of Shipping Finance at Amsterdam-headquartered ING Bank. . Hydrogen has very low density, making it difficult to store on large ships.

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3BL Media

JULY 13, 2022

The company’s latest report provides updates on current sustainability initiatives and efforts supporting its long-term sustainability vision and commitments under these focus areas, including the company’s 2030 commitments to reduce carbon emission intensity and aspirations to achieve net carbon-neutral ship operations by 2050.

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ESG Today

MAY 31, 2023

Founded in 2008, Ireland-based CoolPlanet provides decarbonization software aimed at enabling companies to understand energy and emissions data in real time, and as part of a decarbonization platform offering including consulting and engineering services to help set, implement and report on sustainability targets.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This does not include the environmental and financial benefits of avoiding the extraction, manufacturing, shipping, and end of life management of the five servers that are not needed due to higher performance of the AMD solution. Originally published in AMD 2023-24 Corporate Responsibility Report.

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Sustainability Matters

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Responsible for transporting around 90% of the world’s trade, international shipping contributes to approximately 10% of global CO 2 emissions. In July 2023, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted a new strategy with enhanced targets to reduce GHG emissions from ships.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

With global trade highly dependent on shipping, achieving net zero may put wind in the sails of other industries’ climate ambitions. International shipping accounted for 2% of global energy-related CO2 emissions last year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). What progress has the IMO made?

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 19, 2022

and also be shown on American Forces TV Network at bases, Navy ships and U.S. The values of Enbridge as a corporation are integrity, respect, safety and inclusion—very much in line with the military,” says Stephanie Guerrero, who joined Enbridge in 2008 following time working in health care. 22 on the Lifetime Network in the U.S.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Our sustainability solutions and services offer customers the ability to extend the use of their devices, manage and measure their IT fleet’s carbon footprint, contribute to the circular economy, and even have their equipment shipped more sustainably.

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Gail Tverberg

MARCH 31, 2025

Note that on Figure 3 (in both charts shown), the especially significant increase in debt starts around 2008. Without enough oil for all purposes, a logical way to cut back is to use less oil for international shipping. This sub-prime debt bubble is at least part of what led to the 2008 financial crisis.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Next came both infantry and combat engineer schools before Cutler shipped out. That was March 2008. In 2008, of course, the economy collapsed; the real estate market stalled, and layoffs soared across sectors and employers, including Principal. There, he cleared lanes in minefields and other barriers to engage Iraqi units.

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Gail Tverberg

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

1] The 2004 to 2006 interest rate hikes didn’t lead to lower oil prices until after July 2008. per barrel in July 2008. The rapid growth of the economy likely led to the very high oil price shown in mid-2008. The world’s debt bubble might pop, leading to a worse situation than the financial crisis of 2008.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 10, 2024

Today, the appeal of second-hand clothing in sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly 34% of the world’s second-hand garments were shipped in 2021, is unmistakable. It offers millions of people affordable wardrobe options and underpins a vibrant informal sector that’s crucial for economic resilience. Yet this influx of Western garments – worth US$1.7

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Gail Tverberg

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

I wonder if we are already starting to see simplification in trade, especially international trade, because shipping (generally using oil products) is becoming high-priced. Based on Figure 2, trade as a percentage of GDP hit a peak in 2008. Unfortunately, for both coal and natural gas, the cost of shipping tends to be very high.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For example, state records suggest that the Chevron Richmond Refinery, one of California’s largest emitters, released more greenhouse gases in 2017 and 2018 — the last years for which data are publicly available — than it has since 2008. And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants.

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Gail Tverberg

APRIL 5, 2023

Figure 2 shows that the ratio of US debt to GDP hit a maximum in 2008. Analyzing US debt to GDP ratios by sector provides some insight regarding the reason for the fall in the ratio of debt to GDP since 2008 in Figure 2. California is one state where this approach is starting to catch up with the electricity system.

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3BL Media

JUNE 7, 2022

The design – that of an overturned ship – reflected the site’s location, which was an 11th century Viking boatyard. First built for the 2008 Olympics, Beijing’s breath-taking National Aquatics Centre uses state-of-the-art materials and techniques to reduce energy consumption by as much as 30 per cent. Beijing 2022: Ice Cube.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Yet in 2008, Franklin found a future partner in Stanford MBA Charles Dimmler, who’d cut his teeth in biotech corporate development. The company later built a fermentation processing facility in Brazil that was designed to annually produce 30 million gallons of oil that could be shipped globally.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 1, 2023

But two Corbeil executives, Marc Bédard and Camile Chartrand, jumped into the driver’s seat, launching the company that would become Lion Electric in 2008 to leverage Quebec’s expertise in making school buses. Growth rate: 126% Founded in 2008 in Aldergrove, B.C., closed its doors in 2007. Vicinity Motor Corp.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

A combination of reduced Chinese quota, Brexit uncertainty and a General Election, an increasingly difficult global economic situation, reduced demand from European and other global mills, a lower PRN/PERN price plus increased shipping costs and volatile currency markets have forced down OCC prices in particular.

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2024

There is little evidence of US asset managers jumping ship – at 59 signatories, they represent the second largest contingent behind the UK. But there are few telling indicators to be found in the long-awaited 2024 Target Disclosures Report , published this week by the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative.

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Gail Tverberg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This generous pricing structure allowed natural gas exports to grow rapidly in the 2000 to 2008 period. These climate benefits may be partially or fully offset by methane lost in shipping natural gas as liquefied natural gas (LNG), however.). The price was often tied to the oil price. Natural gas is cleaner-burning than coal.

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Gail Tverberg

AUGUST 3, 2023

As oil becomes “ heavier ,” it becomes more viscous, and thus more difficult to ship by pipeline. If oil is very heavy, as is the oil from the Oil Sands of Canada, it needs to be mixed with an appropriate diluent to be shipped by pipeline. The Great Recession of 2008-2009 particularly affected OECD countries.

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Cisco CSR

MAY 26, 2022

In 2005, I was lucky enough to become a Senior Editor at Tom’s Hardware Guide and attended Black Hat as accredited press from 2005 to 2008. A serious challenge was to secure the needed hardware and ship it in time for the conference, given the global supply chain issues. Seven Meraki MS cloud-managed stackable access switches.

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Gail Tverberg

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

To try to keep the economy operating after the Great Recession, short term interest rates were brought down to close to zero for most of the time between 2008 and early 2022. As China ramped up its manufacturing, the price of oil tended to rise because more oil was needed for manufacturing and shipping the goods China made.

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Gail Tverberg

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Natural gas is expensive to ship and store, so prices vary greatly around the world. ” The recent peak year for combined coal and oil, on a per capita basis, was 2008. Now, with producers quitting at the same time the economy is trying to reopen, it is not surprising that some prices are spiking.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

These include power generators, shipping and heavy transport vehicles such as buses. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has adopted a new regulation to drive the decarbonisation of global shipping. The use of ammonia as a marine fuel is therefore being vigorously investigated by the sector.

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