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Etsy takes aim at shipping and packaging in setting 2030 net-zero goal

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Etsy takes aim at shipping and packaging in setting 2030 net-zero goal. percent absolute reduction in Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, including seller shipping and fulfillment. 31, 2020, which it files annually with the U.S. million sellers with more than 85 million items available for sale, as of December 2020.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping. Tue, 10/20/2020 - 00:15. The global shipping industry's decarbonization efforts once again face stormy seas. Faïg Abbasov, head of shipping at campaign group Transport & Environment, told BusinessGreen the proposal was "essentially an empty shell." "To

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BP, Shell, oil giants fund research into mobile carbon capture from ships at sea

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BP, Shell, oil giants fund research into mobile carbon capture from ships at sea. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 00:05. Expanding carbon capture to long-distance marine shipping could help accelerate its use, while addressing a difficult to abate sector of the transport industry.". The global shipping sector is responsible for around 2.5

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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun

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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 00:15. Tankers at anchor in the Houston Ship Channel started bumping into each other, but the oil kept flowing. . Hunter Lovins. We’re female entrepreneurs and environmentalists. We’ve spent decades promoting clean energy technologies. What happened?

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Trend: Shipping sails toward decarbonization

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The following is adapted from State of Green Business 2020, published by GreenBiz in partnership with Trucost, part of financial information and analytics giant S&P Global.

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This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined

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This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 02:15. At 10 percent, industrial heat ranks on par with the combined emissions of cars (about 6 percent), planes (about 2 percent) and ships (about 2 percent). . Adam Aston. You may not know it, but you rely on industrial heat every day.

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Amazon to buy bio jet fuel to lower air cargo emissions

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Wed, 07/08/2020 - 08:00. Amazon's plans to decarbonize its shipping supply chain isn't just focused on electrifying its delivery vans. are shipped by trucks, but a small and rapidly growing segment of goods are shipped by planes. . Amazon to buy bio jet fuel to lower air cargo emissions. Katie Fehrenbacher.

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