The first of these milestones was achieved in 2020, when Stena Bulk began offering customers low-carbon shipping options with up to a 100% reduction of CO2 emissions.
Comments Off on Decarbonisation Plan to Become a Net Zero Emissions Business by 2050 Unveiled by Stena Bulk / 12th April 2021
Launched in late 2019, the Coalition for the Energy of the Future aims at accelerating the development of future energies and technologies to sustain new green mobility models and reduce the impact of transport and logistics on climate change.
Comments Off on Seven Concrete Actions Unveiled and Three New Members Welcomed by The Coalition for the Energy of the Future / 24th February 2021
Made from pure cellulose fibres, Inverform has been specifically developed for pressed and folded trays used in food packaging. Inverform has an exceptional formability and is the ideal replacement for traditional solutions, such as plastic trays.
Comments Off on InverformTM – New Food Packaging Trays by Iggesund Paperboard Ticks All the Boxes / 9th November 2020
Finding a new way forward for global seaborne trade was at the focus of discussions during the Global Maritime Forum’s week-long Virtual-High Level Meeting.
Comments Off on Global Maritime Leaders Reimagine Seaborne Trade Post COVID-19 / 14th October 2020
A group of the world’s largest energy, agriculture, mining, and commodity trading companies will for the first time assess and disclose the climate alignment of their shipping activities.
Comments Off on Shipping Emissions: Industry Giants Commit to Transparent Reporting / 7th October 2020
we are all in agreement that climate change does indeed see wildlife and their survivalist eco systems suffer, many forget about the shocking implications global warming has on our world’s rivers, streams, wetlands, and oceans.
The Guide includes interviews with representatives from the companies featured, as well as wider research, and a foreward from Dr Tristan Smith – shipping’s leading authority on decarbonisation from UCL’s Energy Institute.
Comments Off on Low Carbon Fuels & Energy: Research Uncovers Significant New Market to Drive Shipping Decarbonisation / 22nd July 2020
By covering the fuel premium for a biofuel volume corresponding to BMW Group’s freight that will be shipped on the Autosky during the trial period, BMW Group will be able to claim a CO2 emission reduction of 80 to 90% for these shipments, totalling more than 400 tonnes of carbon.
Comments Off on Sea Transport Decarbonisation: BMW Group Joins UECC and GoodShipping in Further Biofuel Trials / 11th June 2020
Paperboard packaging with a thin plastic barrier is an ideal compromise which combines paperboard’s stiffness for the construction with plastic’s impermeability for such purposes as a longer food lifespan.
Comments Off on Climate Change: New Recycling Recommendations / 10th June 2020
The Esperanza Base on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula recorded an 18.3-Celsius temperature on February 6, 2020, the hottest temperature yet for Antarctica and almost the same temperature as Los Angeles in California that day.
Coral bleaching is a phenomenon where corals release symbiotic algae living in their tissues due to stress caused by changes in light, temperature or nutrients. This results in the corals turning completely white.
We’ve seen disasters destroy towns and animal populations vanish because of the effects of climate change—and the worse is, this is only the beginning. For many years, we’ve watched as the earth’s temperature continues to rise causing the ice caps…
The Getting to Zero Coalition will lead the push for shipping’s decarbonization with the mutual goal of having commercially viable zero emission vessels operating along deep sea trade routes by 2030.
Comments Off on UN Climate Action Summit: Maritime Shipping’s Moon-shot Ambition Announced / 23rd September 2019
Climate change is still the number one cause of rising sea levels. Burning fossil fuel adds more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, which traps heats and increases the temperature of the earth.
A team from the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in Oban, led by oceanographer Prof Mark Inall, will deploy a small autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) known as an ecoSUB to the foot of a melting glacier in Arctic Norway.
Comments Off on Melting Arctic Glaciers: Underwater Robotic Ocean Explorer Will Go On a ‘dangerous’ Arctic Mission / 5th August 2019
Evidence from two separate studies revealed that global warming has a direct impact on the plight of the penguins. In Argentina, where the biggest colony of Magellanic penguins in the world is found, chicks are dead due to climate change.
Comments Off on How Climate Change Causes Death of Penguin Fledglings in Argentina and Antarctica / 5th August 2019