Pacific Environment

Pacific Environment appoints new California Climate Policy Director

Pacific Environment welcomed Davina Hurt as its new California Climate Policy Director, effective from 30 January 2025.

Hurt brings extensive experience in environmental policy and public service. Appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom, she served on the California Air Resources Board for over four years.

An attorney, two-term councilwoman, and former mayor of Belmont, California, she has been a leader in transportation, energy, waste management, and air quality.

“We are thrilled that...

https://container-news.com/pacific-environment-appoints-new-california-climate-policy-director/

CMA CGM Group orders electric barge for Nike goods 

VIETNAM (March 4, 2025) — According to The Maritime Executive, CMA CGM plans to operate and develop a 100% electric barge for Nike goods in Vietnam. The group said that the barge is part of its long-term commitment and decarbonization plans. However, CMA also told Loadstar this week that it ordered 12 new liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessels last year. 

Ship It Zero strongly opposes LNG, a fossil fuel that is primarily methane, a greenhouse gas that is more than 80 times more potent than carbon...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/03/05/cma-cgm-group-orders-electric-barge-for-nike-goods/

Ulsan Port, Pacific Environment sign decarbonization deal

During Singapore Maritime Week, the Ulsan Port Authority (UPA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Pacific Environment (PE), an international environmental organization, to accelerate the transition of shipping ports into eco-friendly facilities.

The agreement signing took place at UPA’s ‘Shipping Port Decarbonization Networking Reception’ on 17 April. The reception attracted over 32 organizations, including prominent port officials, shipping lines, and environmental non-profit...

https://container-news.com/ulsan-port-pacific-environment-sign-decarbonization-deal/

Ports can accelerate zero-emission ocean shipping transition, new report shows

Ports need to accelerate action in the race to a zero-emission ocean shipping future, environmental organisations Pacific Environment and Opportunity Green said in a new playbook released in connection with Climate Week NYC 2022.

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https://www.offshore-energy.biz/ports-can-accelerate-zero-emission-ocean-shipping-transition-new-report-shows/

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/

Top retailers and carriers urged to move faster to cut shipping emissions

The failure of the shipping industry to inject urgency into the decarbonisation process at last week’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has come under scrutiny from US climate change pressure groups.
The largest retailers and their ocean carriers are playing an outsize role in emissions and must do more to reduce their carbon footprint, urges a report by two environmental interest groups.
The report, released today …

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https://theloadstar.com/top-retailers-and-carriers-urged-to-move-faster-to-cut-shipping-emissions/

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