Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

Transport and Shipping: Land, Air, Water This session was moderated by Renato Mazzoncini, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mechanics at Politecnico di Milano who highlighted that decarbonization of the transportation sector is dependent upon new technologies, specifically around batteries and alternative fuels.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

UK-based M&G Investments has made a US$50 million investment in global freight booking and payment platform Freightos Group. KGAL is benefitting from the growing momentum with its renewable energy funds and is, in turn, making a significant contribution to achieving the expansion targets.”

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 25, 2023

Historically, some 40% of the raw materials entering the site do so by freight ships. In the summer of 2018, these were scraping bottom; cargo traffic was reduced to a trickle, and ships could be only partially laden. It has publicly endorsed the Paris Agreement on climate change as well as the EU’s target of being net-zero by 2050.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Restrictions, Brexit regulations, a ship stuck in the Suez Canal, extreme weather events and energy shortages impacted supply chains and prevented firms to meet their demand. They just give more than they take, a concept explained by Paul Polman ‘s Net Positive book. It will, for example, eliminate more carbon than it produces.

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EJOLT

AUGUST 23, 2016

It is also used for secondary and university education and for doctoral theses and articles and academic books. With the Paris conference on climate change in December 2015, we saw that states are not able to bring up the courage needed to face the environmental crisis. This is the issue that we discuss in our book: Degrowth.

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