Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2024

We focus, specifically, on the shipping of carbon dioxide that was captured in Europe to the United States for sequestration there. Much of the report would also be relevant to the shipping of carbon dioxide between other regions, though domestic laws at either end of the trip may also be relevant. admiralty and maritime jurisdiction.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 11, 2021

This report exposes the untold environmental and public health impacts of retail companies’ reliance on fossil-fueled maritime shipping to bring products into the United States. Download the document. Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Air pollution from ports comes from many sources: ships, trains, tugboats, cargo equipment, and – quite importantly – the trucks that move cargo containers to and from ports. However, zero-emission options for these workhorses of the economy are growing rapidly and some ports are beginning to move towards cleaner operations. Volvo Trucks.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 31, 2021

Maersk, the world’s biggest shipping company, has ordered eight ships capable of running on methanol, which could prove a crucial route to help the shipping industry decarbonise

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As I worked my way through family and friends, attempting to strategically formulate gift ideas within my budget, my mind drifted from the task at hand (as it often does) to ways I could reduce the environmental impacts of my holiday shopping and shipping decisions. The holidays are the peak shopping time for US consumers.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 15, 2022

Among the nearly 100 new signatories joining this week are the world’s largest container shipping company, Maersk; the enterprise software developer SAP; and the North American timberland company Weyerhaeuser. The post Maersk, SAP, and Weyerhaeuser Join Climate Pledge appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

California and other jurisdictions have been moving to reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT) as a climate solution. It’s fair to ask: if all vehicles are “zero emission,” do we really need to care any more about how much driving we do, in terms of the climate impact?

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Statement by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – We welcome the tabling of a new Private Member’s Bill C-383 , an Act to prohibit the export of thermal coal from Canada. million cars.

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Law and Environment

APRIL 20, 2023

We need a comprehensive approach to tackling climate change, one that targets all sectors of the economy. Heavy-duty trucking, maritime shipping, and aviation – Trucks, ships, and airplanes emit a lot of carbon. Hydrogen fuel cells could replace combustion engines in trucks, ships, and some airplanes.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

These threats include: Climate Change: Warming waters caused by climate change have put extreme pressure on our whale populations. Whales are now often sighted outside their usual regions, migrating much further to find ideal habitats and shifting their foraging patterns into busy shipping lanes and fishing grounds.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In one sense, it’s completely true: why in the world are we using valuable water on thirsty alfalfa, only to have it shipped to China as cattle feed (and Saudi Arabia, ditto), and then shipped back here for hamburger? So it makes little sense to call on urban users to conserve, so the story goes, until ag goes first.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Read the full story at ESG Today. Containership owner and operator Seaspan, a subsidiary of asset manager Atlas, announced today the closing of its Blue Transition Bond offering, issuing $750 million senior unsecured notes, significantly ahead of the initial $500 million offering size. Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

This is an integral step towards cleaning our air and reducing climate-warming emissions. California’s fleet of commercial trucks and buses is responsible for an outsized impact on air quality and climate change. A Volvo VNR electric tractor carrying a shipping container. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 24, 2021

by Jing Sun (University of Michigan) Ships carry more than 80% of world trade, and they rely heavily on some of the least environmentally friendly transportation fuels available.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As deeply troubling reports continue to come in about ocean waters hitting historic hot temperatures, sectors like global shipping are trying to understand the consequences of a warmer ocean and what can be done to stop the heating. Warmer water also expands and raises sea levels as well as holds less oxygen. billion (£6.2 billion) each year.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In November, countries around the globe came together at the 27th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, to negotiate a collective path forward towards solutions to the climate crisis facing the planet. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. degrees Celsius.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 2, 2021

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier. By Katelyn Weisbrod The cruise industry was one of the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Spain and Croatia.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In an unusual move, the commission is also reviewing what keeping Line 5 operating means for climate change. Evaluating the impact on climate change if Line 5 continues to operate is new. “We Because it’s more expensive to ship that oil by other methods, especially by rail. Will construction bother the neighbors?

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The inexorable rise of ocean heat is now evident off the coast of West Antarctica, potentially disrupting critical parts of the global climate system and accelerating sea level rise.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 24, 2022

To head off disastrous climate change, we need to radically transform the modern energy system. To a large extent, combatting climate change will mean bringing this long era to an end. Ships are powered with bunker oil. But in order to limit climate change, the long, long Age of Fire will have to come to an end.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The island nation has always been at the mercy of climate patterns such as La Niña in the oceans that surround it. But climate change and land use decisions have intensified these trends, plunging the country into one natural disaster after another. Why it matters: Across the world, the cycle of disaster is accelerating.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 5, 2024

We will also be seeing more comprehensive estimates of the impact of the Hunga-Tonga eruption, and also of the impacts of the decreases in marine shipping emissions. If nothing else, 2023 reminds us that the climate system still has surprises for us, and that this would be a very bad time to our eyes off the ball.

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Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

The AMOC is a big deal for climate. The AMOC however moves the bulk of the heat into the northern Atlantic so is highly relevant for climate, because the southward return flow is very cold and deep (heat transport is the flow multiplied by the temperature difference between northward and southward flow). Graph by Ruijian Gou.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If you’re not a climate scientist—and maybe even if you are—reading news headlines this month has been confounding and a little scary. “In Climate Threshold ,” was the version at Forbes. My colleague Professor Ted Parson served as a senior advisor to the Commission on Climate Overshoot. Degrees of Warming 4 Years Ago.”

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Voices from the Drying Rio Grande — One of the West’s iconic waterways, the Rio Grande is under assault from a warming climate. Reuters reports that water constraints could trouble more firms that hope to develop the next generation of low-carbon hydrogen fuel for shipping, trucking, and steel production.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

March 8, 2023, marked the start of the demonstration phase of Project Greensand , shipping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from Belgium for storage in a depleted oilfield in the North Sea off the coast of Denmark. But, of course, CCS is only one component of a portfolio of actions toward climate mitigation.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 30, 2024

The future of climate-friendly air travel might lie in a 20-foot shipping container that was dropped off on the campus of the University of Sheffield in England in late September. Read the full story at Heatmap.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

“Decarbonising the shipping industry: A status report.” link] Abstract: Against the background of an escalating climate crisis, this article provides an overview of the present status of international regulatory efforts addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ships.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Chicago is also, as it turns out, ground zero for climate change. Climate change is making old solutions obsolete. Chicago has been confronting an unusual problem that may be linked with climate change. That seems like a plausible scenario under climate change but seemingly hasn’t been established yet.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Inside a shipping container in the U.K. Other companies are already using “direct air capture” machines to help fight climate change. Read the full story in Fast Company. city of Sheffield, new technology uses water and renewable electricity to pull CO2 out of the air.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

Human-caused climate change is redistributing species across the globe, re-ordering ecological communities, and even driving genetic changes in some populations. Deforestation and forest fragmentation are making it harder for species to move in response to climate chnage. Photo: T.R.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The decision flies in the face of the advice of the secretariat of the World Heritage Convention which had recommended that because of slow progress in addressing the dual threats of climate change and over-tourism, Venice should be placed on its “in danger” list. Sea level rise and worsening storms are wreaking havoc.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Not least among these include the fundamental misalignment of building out long-lived fossil fuel infrastructure that is entirely incompatible with long-term climate commitments—nor the fact that on both sides of the Atlantic, such long-lived infrastructure will first take multiple years to construct. Credit: U.S. This is not a hypothetical.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 7, 2022

Cargo ships on the Rhine River, in Germany. The paths of our water and climate journeys have led us to one abundantly clear realization. The rapid pace of climate change is both its own threat, and a threat multiplier. Accounting for water use and risk ought to have the same urgency with which we address carbon. Provocative?

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 16, 2022

Read the full story at Inside Climate News. Solar projects in Vietnam by a South Korean manufacturer for leading brands like Under Armor and Victoria’s Secret represent a small start for an industry whose emissions may eclipse those of shipping and aviation. Read more →

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Whatever else can be said about these ideas, I don’t see much reason to think they will matter one way or the other for environmental protection in general or climate change in particular. It’s true that cutting international trade would reduce marine shipping, which would reduce emissions. In the U.S.,

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Inside Climate News

MAY 8, 2021

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier. By Katelyn Weisbrod For those who want to start a farm but live in a city, a desert or perpetually cold region, this company will help you grow produce inside a shipping container.

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