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Amazon aims to clean up aviation

GreenBiz

And climate change remains a big one. . More specifically, Amazon's air shipping business, which along with its entire global logistics supply chain juggernaut is booming. . A startup called Infinium announced it has raised a round of funding including backing from Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund. Katie Fehrenbacher.

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Green corridors could lead the way to zero-carbon shipping. But how can they become a reality?

McKinsey Sustainabilty

A new report by the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping in collaboration with McKinsey lays out a blueprint to assess the feasibility of green corridors.

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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun

GreenBiz

Consider this: In April, Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest companies in the world, announced its intent to become a net-zero carbon company by 2050. No doubt Shell is counting on some miracle like carbon capture to preserve its adherence to a century-old business model of selling oil. Is that possible? What happened?

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Inditex Signs Low Carbon Shipping Deal with Maersk

ESG Today

Moller – Maersk aimed at reducing to reduce Inditex’s global greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint from ocean shipping through the use of low carbon fuels. In 2021, the company pledged to transition its ocean freight to zero-carbon shipping by 2040.

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Revolutionary changes in transportation could slow global warming if done right

Corporate Knights

Transportation is a growing source of the global greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change, accounting for 23% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions worldwide in 2019 and 29% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. Other ways to cut emissions from transportation.

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For High-Tech Supply Chains, CO2 Emission Tracking Is Sustainable Business Currency

3BL Media

Gartner analysts said that by 2025, 40% of all manufacturing IT will own the responsibility of data modeling for sustainability and net-zero carbon targets. Consider the carbon footprint of a laptop. Companies can explore what-if scenarios, such as finding closer suppliers to reduce shipping miles and energy consumption.

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7 Companies Leading the Net Zero Energy Revolution

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Last year marked a global shift in corporations adopting low-carbon and net-zero pledges as experts at the United Nations Climate Change Conference , COP26, declared that the climate crisis is at a critical inflection point. C commitment and 7,126 companies have joined the Race to Zero.

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