Corporate Knights
MARCH 20, 2023
Delaying those actions “would lock in high-emissions infrastructure, raise risks of stranded assets and cost escalation, reduce feasibility, and increase losses and damages.” But some meeting participants warned that those delays are baked into the process by some of the key assumptions in the IPCC’s modelling.
Chris Hall
JULY 7, 2023
However, up until now, the ocean has had little to no regulation, which has led to issues which are in no one’s best interests in the long term, such as overfishing, resource depletion, habitat destruction, bioprospecting of marine species, and widespread pollution: particularly plastic waste, as well as noise pollution and pollution from shipping.
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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. The river’s water was too warm to effectively cool BASF’s reactors.
Chris Hall
AUGUST 23, 2023
With global trade highly dependent on shipping, achieving net zero may put wind in the sails of other industries’ climate ambitions. International shipping accounted for 2% of global energy-related CO2 emissions last year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). What progress has the IMO made?
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 25, 2024
Sustainable shipping fuels could reach cost parity with fossil fuels as early as 2035 with the help of decisive emissions policy such as carbon taxes and emissions limits, according to a report launched by technology firm Wärtsilä on 21 March. iii Transporting 80% of world trade, shipping is the engine room of the global economy.
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
times higher than the UK's own greenhouse gas emissions (excluding aviation and shipping). For example, the indicative financed emissions from the UK financial sector in 2019 were found to be 1.8 trillion USD in fossil fuels. A simple example is that of a financial investment in a mining company.
Corporate Knights
AUGUST 15, 2022
For months, Canadian fossils have been touting the possibility of shipping LNG to Germany to help the country cope with an energy supply crisis brought on by Russia’s war in Ukraine. Building a new LNG export facility in Canada sounds like an enormous stranded asset in the making.”. Canada’s Duty. On a trip to St.
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