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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 Cecilia Keating. To achieve 1.5

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Amazon aims to clean up aviation

GreenBiz

More specifically, Amazon's air shipping business, which along with its entire global logistics supply chain juggernaut is booming. . Air shipping, a growing sector, is the most carbon-intensive way to ship a product. Enter air cargo.

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

GreenBiz

This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined. 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). . At that price, most farms or town dumps can’t afford to develop biogas collection on their own. "An

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Lenovo's Journey to Net-Zero: Natural Resources Conservation

3BL Media

In a nutshell: Even if we achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement and limit global warming to 1.5 This means that servers are assembled to order at the factory, reducing the amount of paper, cardboard and other shipping materials used for packaging.

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Maersk Withdraws Board Member from ICS for Climate Change Reasons

3BL Media

One of the largest shipping groups in the world, A.P. The group withdrew its member, Maersk executive and board member Henriette Hallberg Thygesen, from International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), following an annual revision of trade association memberships. There has been no comment from the ICS regarding the matter.

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Maersk Sources 100,000 Tonnes of Green Methanol to Support Fleet Decarbonization Goals

ESG Today

Moller – Maersk announced today a strategic partnership with US-based project developer Carbon Sink LLC to develop green methanol production facilities in the U.S., Steve Meyer, CEO of Carbon Sink, said: “We are very pleased to be working with Maersk in support of their mission to decarbonise the shipping sector.

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Whether pandemic or climate crisis, you better get your data right

GreenBiz

Investors are concerned about the viability of long-term assets in high emissions sectors at risk of being hit by negative policy or market developments. Pressure to make emissions visible has been around for a while: Consumers want to know how much carbon is embodied in the products they buy. Why do this?