Driving demand for climate action

Members ofa global buyers’ club, made up of over 50 corporations and nine countries representing more than 40% of global gross domestic product, have pledged to switch to materials made from processes that produce little to no carbon.

This news was announced Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

At the 2014 forum, all climate-related panels took place in tents outside the main conference area. This year climate change has taken center stage and made up a third of panel...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/driving-demand-for-climate-action

Google praise Kallichoron Hotel for its commitment to Sustainability

l to r: Matt Brittin, President of EMEA Business & Operations for Google in a discussion with Vasilis Kikilias, Minister of Tourism, Hellenic Republic and TV presenter Maria Nikoltsiou

We are excited to share with all of you all over Planet Ocean, that during the 7th Delphi Economic Forum, on the panel for the Tourism of Tomorrow, Matt Brittin, President of EMEA Business & Operations for Google in a discussion with Vasilis Kikilias, Minister of Tourism, Hellenic Republic mentioned Kallichoron...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/04/09/google-praise-kallichoron-hotel-for-its-commitment-to-sustainability/

UN Shipping Body IMO fails on Black Carbon, lives up to reputation for Climate Inaction

London, April 7th, 2022:- A week that opened with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lambasting governments and industry for their climate inaction, and the IPCC’s Climate Mitigation report criticising the poor climate governance of international shipping, is set to close with the UN’s shipping agency, the IMO, again kicking climate concerns into the long grass, by failing to reduce the climate impacts on the Arctic fromthe black carbon emissions responsible for 20% of shipping’s climate...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/04/07/un-shipping-body-imo-fails-on-black-carbon-lives-up-to-reputation-for-climate-inaction/

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