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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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Home Depot

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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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Home Depot

Lowe's

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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”.

Amazon

Maritime shipping industry

Pollution

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Ship It Zero Resolution Passes Long Beach City Council 

April 18, 2023 — The Long Beach City Council unanimously passed a Ship It Zero Resolution, 8-0, after the city attorney recommended that the council approve the resolution.

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CMA CGM pulls ahead in zero-emission ocean shipping race, still trails Maersk in reducing LNG fleet

April 12, 2023 — SAN FRANCISCO – CMA CGM, the top ocean shipping supplier for Walmart, announced that it has ordered 12 methanol-powered container ships, pulling ahead of Maersk with the most orders for zero-emission ships. In June of last year, the company announced that it had ordered six ships with dual-fuel methanol engines as part of its climate strategy.

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Climate advocates applaud IKEA’s latest commitment to zero-emission shipping

March 29, 2023 — Today, the Aspen Institute announced the addition of IKEA as the first member of the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA), alongside co-founders Amazon, Patagonia and Tchibo.

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Maritime shipping industry

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Ship It Zero Resolution unanimously passes Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council

March 22, 2023 — The Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council unanimously passed a Ship It Zero resolution 12-0. The resolution calls on top maritime import polluters to the United States to commit to making all imports to the United States on 100% zero-emission ships by 2030.