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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping. 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 To achieve 1.5

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Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule

GreenBiz

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. Carbon is everywhere.

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Guest Post – Melting Hope: Can We Answer the Glaciers’ SOS?

ESG Today

By: Hakan Bulgurlu – Chief Executive Officer, Beko Melting glaciers and ice sheets have been making headlines globally often for all the wrong reasons. They are increasingly viewed as assets: faster Arctic shipping lanes, access to untapped mineral resources, and far-reaching geopolitical ambitions. Used your dishwasher?

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Sustainable infrastructure investments can aid the post-COVID recovery

GreenBiz

The economic fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing governments around the world to come up with policies for stimulating the global economy. Many are considering a tried-and-true method to boost economies in the short term and provide wide societal benefits in the long term: infrastructure investment.

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A new Swedish iron processing project could disrupt the global steel industry

GreenBiz

However, the company’s plan to invest up to $46 billion over the next 15–20 years to expand into an emissions-free iron process being piloted in Northern Sweden is big news for Sweden, the global steel industry and future generations around the world. Change requires exploration of new concepts and solutions.

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Nature takes root on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

ESG issues continue to gain prominence, with climate change getting the most attention today. Of course, moving to renewable energy wherever possible and reducing emissions across cars, shipping and aerospace are important initiatives. Without question, nature is an even bigger issue than climate change.

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Is sustainability undergoing a pandemic pause?

GreenBiz

It said in part: Today, every occupant of every C-suite is trying to figure out what they’re willing to throw overboard as the economic storm spawned by the pandemic is swamping their ships. When the global economy essentially sank like a stone as people world over sheltered in place. When the U.S.

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