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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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BP, Shell, oil giants fund research into mobile carbon capture from ships at sea

GreenBiz

BP, Shell, oil giants fund research into mobile carbon capture from ships at sea. Expanding carbon capture to long-distance marine shipping could help accelerate its use, while addressing a difficult to abate sector of the transport industry.". Expanding carbon capture to long-distance marine shipping could help accelerate its use.

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Clean Skies Ahead? The Future of Global Shipping with Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Impakter

The Future of Global Shipping with Sustainable Aviation Fuel Aviation continues to pose an ongoing headache when it comes to the climate crisis. With 65% of its emissions occurring in international airspace, the aviation industry is not included in the Paris Agreement, as no one country would take responsibility for reducing those emissions.

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3 actions the industry can take to decarbonize shipping

Environmental News Bits

Shipping must align with the Paris Agreement temperature goal and be run entirely on net-zero energy sources by 2050. Over 200 signatories to the industry-led Call to Action to decarbonize shipping firmly believe that urgent and equitable decarbonization of the maritime supply chain by 2050 is possible and necessary.

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Canada’s LNG industry says it will reduce Asian emissions. Prove it.

Corporate Knights

They argue that this country could actually take credit for some of those Asian GHG reductions under Article 6 of the 2015 Paris climate treaty, which allows for bilateral emissions trading. For one thing, both buyer and seller governments must be in compliance with core Paris Agreement obligations to participate in the Article 6 mechanism.

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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). . Adam Aston. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 02:15. You may not know it, but you rely on industrial heat every day.

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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. Tweet me: @Acre reports one of the largest shipping groups in the world, A.P.