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Progress but no victory at COP26, BoE’s November decision showcases flexible response to Covid climbdown, and more

Progress but no victory at COP26, BoE’s November decision showcases flexible response to Covid climbdown, and more

THE WEEKEND REVIEW Latest opinion and analysis from OMFIF around the world

8-12 November 2021, Vol.12 Ed.45

Most-Read Commentary

Progress but no victory at COP26: Never before has a United Nations climate summit been attended by so many financial institutions. Not everyone is viewing the financialisation of the COP as a positive, with activist Greta Thunberg describing it as a ‘global...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/11/13/progress-but-no-victory-at-cop26-boes-november-decision-showcases-flexible-response-to-covid-climbdown-and-more/

Central banks do not need to intervene over price rises yet

Central banks do not need to intervene over price rises yet

Thursday 11 November 2021 – Vol.12 Ed.45.4

Commentary: Fed will act on inflation when it needs to

By Paul Sheard in New York

Elevated inflation readings, particularly in the US, are causing many pundits to express a dim view of the pandemic-triggered fiscal and monetary expansions. They warn of looming runaway inflation. The premise underlying the modern macroeconomic policy framework is that central banks can and will control inflation...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/11/11/central-banks-do-not-need-to-intervene-over-price-rises-yet/

The Shipping Environment needs the Human touch

The Shipping Environment needs the Human touch

The Shipping Environment needs the Human touch

The maritime shipping industry should not forget the human element as it recovers from the global pandemic and faces new environmental challenges according to Panos Kirnidis, CEO of the Palau International Shipping Registry (PISR).

“The overwhelming message from the COP26 is that failure to act on environmental issues will affect real people but it is people that will lead the charge to recovery and...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/11/10/the-shipping-environment-needs-the-human-touch/

Global Resilience Index Initiative Launched

Global Resilience Index Initiative Launched

Glasgow, UK, 8th November, 2021:

I’m delighted to let you know that the Global Resilience Index Initiative (GRII) multi-partner taskforce announces today its formal launch at COP26 Adaptation Day.

Patrons of the GRII initiative are Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance; Mami Mizutori, Assistant Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction in the United Nations Office for Disaster...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/11/08/global-resilience-index-initiative-launched/

Monaco’s George Lucian designs the future…

Monaco’s George Lucian designs the future…

Monaco; the marina and at the centre the Yacht Club de Monaco

Good Morning Monaco – Saturday, November 6, 2021

Monaco’s George Lucian designs the future Imagine this. You draw a design of a yacht that is futuristic (you think), visionary (you think), revolutionary (you think), an amazing concept (you think) and show it to your closest friends. The feedback is not good…

Monaco records six new coronavirus cases
Six Monaco residents tested positive for...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/11/06/monacos-george-lucian-designs-the-future/

WOC Participating in Several COP26 Events

WOC Participating in Several COP26 Events

WOC Hosts Official Side Event, Joins Panels for World Climate Summit & Wood @ COP26 Session

NOVEMBER 6

The World Ocean Council, in partnership with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, the Monaco Scientific Center, Foundation BNP Paribas, the University of Bergen, and Future Earth, presents an official side event of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26).

Carbon Conservation & Sequestration in Ocean: Nature-Based & Technology Solutions

15:...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/11/05/woc-participating-in-several-cop26-events/

ECSA at UN climate change conference COP26

ECSA at UN climate change conference COP26

Claes Berglund, ECSA President and Director of Public Affairs and Sustainability at Stena

ECSA is a shipping association partner of the shipping conference organised by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) on the 6th of November on the margins of UNFCCC COP26 in Glasgow. The ‘Shaping the future of Shipping’ conference will bring together ministers, key policy-makers as well as industry leaders.

Attendees will identify ways to increase investment in...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/11/05/ecsa-at-un-climate-change-conference-cop26/

World’s first liquid hydrogen bunkering unit for fuelling zero-emission ships is unveiled at COP26

World’s first liquid hydrogen bunkering unit for fuelling zero-emission ships is unveiled at COP26

Steven Lua, CEO of Unitrove, with his father Aik Lua, the company’s Chief Technical Officer, at the launch today in Glasgow

Clean energy solutions provider Unitrove today unveiled the world’s first liquid hydrogen bunkering facility for fuelling zero-emission ships at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow.

The unveiling, at the City of Glasgow College’s Riverside Campus, is the culmination...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/11/05/worlds-first-liquid-hydrogen-bunkering-unit-for-fuelling-zero-emission-ships-is-unveiled-at-cop26/

WOC Provides Online Resource for COP26 Ocean Events

WOC Provides Online Resource for COP26 Ocean Events

2 November 2021 – With the planet’s climate future at stake, the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference is focused on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees. The ocean will play a central role the climate change mitigation and adaptation needed to reach this goal.

As such, several key discussions related to the ocean are taking place around COP26. The World Ocean Council has organized a list of these events, webinars, pavilions and projects to help...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/11/02/woc-provides-online-resource-for-cop26-ocean-events/

Leading Players at COP26 Call for Immediate Actions to Accelerate Renewable Energy Jobs

Leading Players at COP26 Call for Immediate Actions to Accelerate Renewable Energy Jobs

ISWA’s Gavin Allwright

London, UK 1 November 2021 – more than 130 renewable energy leaders, under the auspices of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Coalition for Action, launched a call to action today, encouraging all governments at national, regional, and local levels to ensure access to high-quality, sustainable jobs during the energy transition.

Limiting the earth’s temperature rise to 1.5oC...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/11/01/leading-players-at-cop26-call-for-immediate-actions-to-accelerate-renewable-energy-jobs/

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