Category: Press Release
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Ship It Zero Coalition Commends IKEA for Addressing Climate and Public Health Impacts of Maritime Shipping in New Reports
January 26, 2024
— The Ship It Zero coalition commends IKEA for addressing maritime shipping, while prioritizing sustainability and public health as reflected in the company’s FY23 Sustainability and Climate reports released yesterday.
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Ship It Zero cautiously welcomes container shipping majors’ joint effort to end fossil fuel-powered ships, calls for more stringent plan to achieve 100% zero-emission shipping
December 5, 2023
— The Ship It Zero coalition cautiously welcomes an announcement from five of the world’s largest shipping lines — MSC, Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd and Wallenius Wilhelmsen — made in Dubai at COP28 that calls for an end date for fossil fuel-only powered newbuilds, while also urging the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to create the regulatory conditions to accelerate the green fuels transition.
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Apple releases “Mother Nature” ad, touts maritime shipping
September 21, 2023
— Apple released a “Mother Nature” ad touting its 2020 promise to bring its entire carbon footprint to net zero by 2030. The ad shows the Apple environmental team giving Mother Nature a status report. In one moment, an Apple team member says, “I’m proud to report that we’re shipping more products by ocean rather than air, which reduces transportation emissions by 95%.”
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Maersk, CMA CGM announce partnership to accelerate green fuels
September 19, 2023
— Copenhagen, Denmark (September 19, 2023) — Maersk and CMA CGM have announced that they will join forces to move shipping decarbonization forward, including setting net zero targets and investing in the energy transition, as well as working together to develop the use of alternative greener fuels for container ships.
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Amazon ships goods on first zero-carbon Maersk ocean ship
September 14, 2023
— Maersk named its first-ever zero-emissions ocean ship, the Laura Maersk. Just recently, Amazon transported goods on this ship from Shanghai to Rotterdam. Amazon also recently finalized a 2023-2024 agreement with Maersk for the transport of 20,000 40-foot equivalent containers using methanol through Maersk’s “ECO Delivery” ocean product offering.
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Amazon, IKEA, Patagonia and 20+ major brands launch initiative to accelerate the transition to zero-emission fuels
September 13, 2023
— Today, the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA) announced a Request for Proposals (RfP) for 600,000 20-foot containers (TEUs) over a 3-year period on ocean vessels powered by zero-emission fuels. The mission of ZEMBA is to accelerate commercial deployment of zero-emission shipping, by leveraging companies’ collective buying power to accelerate the zero-emission vessel market and realize the ambition of zero-emission ocean shipping by 2040.
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Inaugural Report Card on Ocean Ship Pollution: Major Retailers, Ocean Carrier Lines Earn Failing Grades
August 3, 2023
— A report card released today by the Ship It Zero campaign reveals that few retailers and carrier lines are tracking their devastating climate change emissions from global ocean shipping. Additionally, few carriers are taking the necessary steps to decarbonize their shipping fleets in the face of the climate change crisis and are failing to limit shipping emissions to keep in the range of a 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F) global temperature rise. The shipping industry is failing to do its part to address the climate crisis, and today’s report card puts retailers and carrier lines on notice to clean up their shipping problem.
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Amazon ditches shipping, climate commitments
May 30, 2023
— Business Insider has reported that Amazon has ditched part of its climate pledge and deleted its blog post that announced the Shipment Zero initiative. Instead of continuing to target to make all of its shipments net zero carbon, with 50% of all shipments net zero by 2030, Amazon has ditched this commitment and rolled broader goals into its “Climate Pledge”.
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