By The International Chamber of Shipping.
The shipping industry’s official COP26 sideline event, ‘Shaping the Future of Shipping’, will bring together leaders from the shipping, energy, climate sectors and international ministers to translate government ambitions set out at the COP leaders’ summit and to identify actions and recommendations for all parties, including IMO member states.
Newly confirmed attendees include Patricia Espinosa,...
Want to reduce your company’s environmental impact, but not sure where to start? Whether you’re a large or small business, embarking on the quest for sustainability might feel overwhelming if your operations have been less than planet-friendly in the past. Take a deep breath, small steps, and some pointers from an organization that’s on a similar journey.
When you’re ready to boost your firm’s sustainability efforts, start by challenging the common assumption that industry and sustainability...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/why-a-green-company-culture-is-the-key-to-corporate-sustainability
Logistics is a dirty industry. The U.S. is one of the largest carbon emitters in the world, and the movement of vehicles is the number one source of those emissions. Freight trucks are responsible for about 23% of overall transportation in America, making these diesel-burning vehicles responsible for a whole lot of ozone-threatening emissions. Consumers are becoming more aware of both the urgency of climate change and the complexities of the supply chain, while transportation companies are...
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By Clare Baldwin and Kate Abnett (Reuters) – The environmental transformation happening in the Arctic is key to understanding the potential global impacts of climate change, an Alaska Native leader…
Sam Chambers, for Splash247, talks about the two commendable things about the calamity onboard the ONE Apus boxship.
Container loss aboard boxshipThe ONE Apus boxship suffered the biggest loss of containers seen for seven years when it hit a severe storm cell in the middle of the Pacific 10 days ago.
The battered remains of its boxes on deck shocked readers on Tuesday when the magenta-coloured vessel limped into the Japanese port of Kobe.
Read Also: Storm Wrecks Container Vessel, 1,900 Boxes Lost...
https://mfame.guru/two-commendable-aspects-about-the-one-apus-container-collapse/
Truck drivers need downtime just like the rest of us, even when they’re on the road. Watching a movie can be an entertaining way to pass the time, especially if it centers around weather. In a FreightWaves Twitter survey, this is how drivers ranked four of the most well-known weather-themed films of all time.
‘The Day After Tomorrow’ (2004)
In our survey, this movie treceived top billing with 57.1% of the vote.
When it comes to weather-related disaster movies, some people say Roland Emmerich is...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/truck-drivers-favorite-weather-movies-of-all-time
Reacting to news of the Arctic summer sea ice minimum reaching its second-lowest extent in the 42-year satellite record on September 15, and to recent reports of a polar heatwave, Greenland ice sheet’s loss of million tonnes of ice per day, the collapse of the Spalte glacier and Milne Ice Shelf, and the Arctic’s shift to a new climate, the Clean Arctic Alliance today called on world leaders to take urgent action to slow Arctic warming.
“With temperatures reaching 38° Celsius north of the Arctic...
https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/world-leaders-must-arrest-arctic-climate-change-impacts/
An enormous chunk of Greenland’s ice cap has broken off in the far northeastern Arctic, a development that scientists say is evidence of rapid climate change, says an article published in Midland Daily News.
How did it happen?The glacier section that broke off is 110 square kilometers (42.3 square miles). It came off of the fjord called Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, which is roughly 80 kilometers (50 miles) long and 20 kilometers (12 miles) wide, the National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland...
https://mfame.guru/massive-ice-chunk-breaks-off-from-greenland-sparking-global-concerns/
The Arctic’s largest ice shelf has detached a 113 km2 area. The last few years have been incredibly warm in northeast Greenland and this appears to be a progressive disintegration.
Annual end-of-melt-season area changes for the Arctic’s largest ice shelf in Northeast Greenland are measured from optical satellite imagery, and it shows that the area losses for the past two years (year 2018/2019 and year 2019/2020) both exceeded 50 km2. In total an area nearly twice that of Manhattan Island, New...
Amazon’s air cargo operation is contributing to meet the company’s goal of being carbon neutral by 2040 with an agreement to purchase up to six million gallons of jet fuel made from renewable sources.
The fuel blend, which includes feedstock of agricultural waste fats and oils, has the ability to reduce Amazon Air’s carbon emissions by 22%, Sarah Rhodes, vice president of Amazon Global Air said on a video describing the initiative and showing Prime planes being loaded with cargo and refueled.
Ama...
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