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Cost parity for sustainable shipping fuels achievable by 2035

Envirotec Magazine

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.

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Is the IMO Turning the Tide on Transition?

Chris Hall

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?

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

The announcement is meant to deliver on the 2023 subsidy phaseout deadline contained in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s December, 2021 mandate letters to Guilbeault and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. Carbon Capture Backed by Carbon Offsets?

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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

times higher than the UK's own greenhouse gas emissions (excluding aviation and shipping). South Pole can help you navigate the existing framework as well as the new net zero guidance (FINZ) which will replace it in Q4 2023. For example, the indicative financed emissions from the UK financial sector in 2019 were found to be 1.8

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The Climate Blockers: BASF quietly lobbies against strong climate policy while talking a big game

Corporate Knights

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.

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

Ahead of COP26, the Mission Possible Partnership released industry-backed roadmaps for steel, shipping and aviation, demonstrating it is technically and economically feasible for hard-to-abate sectors to develop pathways to net zero across their value chains this decade. ANALYSIS: NEWS: .

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