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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.

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Now, What's Next? Podcast: Trouble Brewing Along the Coffee Supply Chain

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Host Sonari Glinton finds out how changing climates and unpredictable weather will continue to impact coffee crops, create shipping delays, and raise the price of a cup of joe, and what some are doing to help create resilience in the face of these challenges.

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Meet the Climate Scientists Taking Arctic Icebergs-in-a-Bottle to Glastonbury

3BL Media

The Arctic Basecamp team is serving up a climate change warning — in a bottle. But, as climate scientists are fond of saying: " What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic." Tweet me: The @ArcticBasecamp team is serving up a climate change warning with bottles made from real melt water from Greenland.

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Ram Amar’s “crazy” plan to store a gigaton of carbon at the bottom of the Black Sea

Corporate Knights

Whenever Ram Amar explains his idea for mitigating climate change, people usually look at him strangely and ask if he’s crazy. His startup, Rewind , wants to sequester a gigaton of carbon each year — about 10 percent of what climate scientists deem necessary each year to reach net zero by 2050 — in a remarkably simple way.

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Top Energy Transition Conferences to Attend (Virtually or In-Person) in 2022

3BL Media

Between the climate crisis and continued interruptions in the global energy supply chain, an increasing number of companies and governments are preparing to transition to more sustainable and diversified energy systems. Decarbonizing shipping. Collaboration is vital on this all-encompassing initiative. Carbon markets. Future of Energy.

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One year on: Impacts of a landmark legal opinion on climate change

Eco-Business

Small island states are especially susceptible to climate impacts such as flooding. They are also driving legal battles to force action against climate change. But in 2022, it looked at perhaps the biggest international question there is: climate change. Image: ILO Asia-Pacific , CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Flickr.

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Six Outcomes Leading Businesses Want to See from COP28

We Mean Business Coalition

COP28 offers a historic opportunity to drastically change course on climate change. The chorus of voices calling for change is growing louder, and the world’s leading companies are ready and willing to act. For example , the shipping industry works on decade long timelines for ordering new ships.