Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This is a key finding of a new scientific report, “The Ocean as a Solution for Climate Change: 5 Opportunities for Action” , published on 23 September at the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit in New York. Decarbonising domestic and international shipping and transport – which could cut up to 1.8

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For the first time, the report separates and quantifies all of the carbon emissions throughout the BECCS scenario, including emissions associated with the most common supply chain for UK biomass electricity – wood pellets shipped from the US Southeast. ?. However, the math associated with the leading approach to BECCS doesn’t add up.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Transport is the highest emitting sector in Scotland, at 37 per cent of total emissions, when including aviation and shipping. e), representing a 3 per cent rise, and have increased by 9 per cent since 2012. per cent per year.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Through conversations with national climate change experts in 24 markets and across 6 economic sectors, the report highlights those that are leading the charge in their progress towards net zero, and those where it is taking place more slowly.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Reaching Net Zero operations by 2050 will require huge changes in industrial practices – such as how we use energy and source raw materials – but despite all the challenges, the target is achievable writes Rob Jenkinson. Climate change is no longer a theoretical concept: it poses an existential threat to us all.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Multiple initiatives have been launched: the UK Infrastructure Bank has been set up to prioritise investment in projects that tackle climate change, there are efforts to accelerate green finance, and green energy continues to receive subsidies to encourage construction and production of more renewable power.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

“Targeting net-zero is a fantastic start to help us get there, and Scotland’s net-zero target is better than most because unlike other countries, it includes international transport emissions from flights and shipping. But net-zero cannot be the end point.

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Gail Tverberg

JULY 22, 2024

This change led to humans being able to outcompete all other animals. Eventually, this change led to populations outgrowing available resources and collapsing. According to Discover Magazine , pre-humans first began to build fires to cook food at least 800,000 years ago. A similar pattern holds for other resources, as well. [8]

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

The bigger ships become, the deeper channels need to be dredged. The navigation channel to the Port of Rotterdam (red solid line) and predicted depth of the channel (dashed red line) becomes deeper as ships become larger. The ships are scaled relative to each other. Bleak budget.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The sector currently generates 8% of global CO2 emissions: more than aviation and shipping combined. The challenge of increasing emissions is becoming more urgent as production of concrete and cement is increasing to meet global needs. Without efficiency gains, demand for cement is projected to increase by 50% by 2050. .”

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Since the industrial revolution, humans have made the planet, the oceans in particular, noisier through fishing, shipping, infrastructure development and more, while also silencing the sounds from marine animals that dominated the pristine ocean.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A ship approaches the jetty at the Port of Tyne. Ports recognise the scale of the challenge in reducing emissions from their operations and from ships. Source: A Summary Report for the Department for Transport – Reducing the Maritime Sector’s Contribution to climate change and pollution 2019.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This is testament to the urgency with which governments and industries are seeking to address climate change, while continuing to supply the world’s growing population with necessary energy services and commodities.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

UN water experts say it is time to increase the tapping of Earth’s diverse and abundant unconventional water sources – the millions of cubic kilometres of water held in deep land-based and seabed aquifers, in fog and icebergs, in the ballast holds of thousands of ships, and elsewhere. Ballast water.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2024

Digital twins are digital replicas of the physical world which can be built from data collected in real time by sensors connected to infrastructure such as roads, railways or shipping. UCL – maritime, including the shipping research group at the university’s UCL Energy Institute.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

Around 70 million barrels of hydrocarbons are lost yearly due to evaporation of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) during loading, storage and transportation of crude oil on ships. In other words: if you are a shipping operator, curbing seaborne VOC emissions is a chance to make your business more profitable. billion USD annually.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

BECCS technology will not capture the emissions that result from cutting down trees, processing them into wood pellets, and shipping the pellets across oceans to power stations before being burned. Any UK Government climate plan that relies on BECCS at Drax is extremely high-risk.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

The X1 looks like a standard shipping container, but it’s a fully autonomous, modular insect farm powered by AI. Not only are we wasting the resources that have gone into creating the food, but also continuously filling up landfill sites, contributing to more emissions and exacerbating climate change. “We

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Or the suite could be used to help supermarkets get a clearer picture of how refrigeration systems are contributing to their overall greenhouse gas emissions and prioritize locations for improvement.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Chemicals are present in the deepest parts of the ocean and in all manner of marine biota, and concentrations of many of the most dangerous chemicals in the marine environment continue to rise. Building greater awareness is essential. Consumers, notably, could influence marine chemical pollution through purchasing decisions.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New tool will help census oceans from surface to seafloor, monitor fish, track shifting marine life due to climate change, around coral reefs, aquaculture or wind farms, oil rigs, and more. Humanity is seemingly a step closer to answering one of the most ancient of questions – “how many fish in the sea?”

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Although prevailing wisdom holds that time is running out, BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2024 seemingly shows how the world could still achieve the major goal of the Paris Agreement – holding global warming to well below 2°C and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change – and what it would take to get there.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

Research shows that 90% of SMEs are keen to tackle climate change, but find it difficult to know how or where to start to find the right solutions to reduce their carbon footprint. The new UK Business Climate Hub is a one-stop-shop for businesses to find practical advice to reduce their carbon footprint and save on their energy bills.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Aiming to create a carbon-negative album release, they calculated the “cradle-to-grave” carbon impact of both a CD and vinyl LP from manufacturing to shipping, from its life in a fan’s stereo to its likely afterlife in a landfill 100 years from now. As an example, he points to Big Time, the 2022 album by singer/songwriter Angel Olsen.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

New tool will help census oceans from surface to seafloor, monitor fish, track shifting marine life due to climate change, around coral reefs, aquaculture or wind farms, oil rigs, and more. Humanity is seemingly a step closer to answering one of the most ancient of questions – “how many fish in the sea?”

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide emissions, and is fed by a constant supply of wood pellets shipped to the UK on enormous vessels, mostly form North America. The wood pellets are shipped to the United Kingdom on enormous vessels that are in transit for 21 days.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

Colleagues and I have estimated that the US military alone contributes more greenhouse gas emissions than over 150 countries, but too often discussions of the links between militaries and climate change focus only on future risks to global security in climate-affected settings.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The Irish Sea is under significant and increasing pressure from climate change and activities like fishing, aquaculture, development, shipping, aggregates, military activity, recreation and pollution. per cent is fully protected. Whilst there are some protection measures in place for the Irish Sea, management is weak.

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