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Shippers put more pressure on ocean carriers for carbon-free services
March 17, 2023
— A new alliance of major shippers is pushing ocean carriers to step up their efforts to cut back on CO2 emissions.
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New research names top brands responsible for shipping pollution
March 4, 2023
— Including Walmart, Home Depot, LG Electronics, Nike, Target, Amazon and IKEA — and reveals new data on ocean shipping emissions generated from the transportation of goods from the technology, furniture and fashion sectors.
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Walmart, Target, and Home Depot targeted over shipping emissions
March 4, 2023
— Retail giants Walmart, Target, and Home Depot have been highlighted as the top brands for shipping pollution into the US and urged to use zero-emission vessels that currently don’t exist.
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Companies must act to abandon dirty ships: New research names top brands responsible for shipping pollution
March 4, 2023
— New research released by the Ship It Zero campaign finds that Walmart, Target and Home Depot were the largest ocean import polluters of 2021.
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New research finds top brands responsible for shipping pollution
March 4, 2023
— The Ship It Zero coalition released analysis that finds container ships filled with goods imported by 18 major consumer brands generated 3.5 million metric tons of climate pollution, the equivalent of what roughly 750,000 gas-powered cars generate in a year.
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New Report Reveals Ocean Shipping Emissions of Top U.S. Importers
March 4, 2023
— The top U.S. importers emitted 3.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gases from shipping during the height of the pandemic-driven imports surge in 2021, according to new research released today by the Ship It Zero campaign.
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Walmart, Target and Home Depot worst among US importers for emissions
March 4, 2023
— According to a report released yesterday by Ship It Zero, Walmart shipped 850,630 teu at a carbon cost of 788,019 tonnes of CO2.
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Major US retailers face call to abandon polluting ships
March 4, 2023
— US retailers including Walmart, Target and Home Depot are being urged to abandon polluting vessels and end port pollution by the end of the decade.
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New research names top brands responsible for shipping pollution
March 4, 2023
— New research released on Wednesday (1 March) by the Ship It Zero campaign finds that Walmart, Target and Home Depot were the largest ocean import polluters of 2021, as e-commerce demands skyrocketed in the U.S. and globally.
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Walmart Found To Be One Of The Biggest Contributors To Climate Change?
March 4, 2023
— Walmart's cargo ships leak 3.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gases annually, directly contributing to climate change.
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Companies must act to abandon dirty ships: New research names top brands responsible for shipping pollution
March 4, 2023
— New research released today by the Ship It Zero campaign finds that Walmart, Target and Home Depot were the largest ocean import polluters of 2021, as e-commerce demands skyrocketed in the U.S. and globally.
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Retailers With Highest Maritime Shipping Emissions Named in New Report
March 4, 2023
— The All Brands on Deck report, created by Ship It Zero, Pacific Environment and Stand.earth, named 18 retailers tied to the greenhouse gas emissions from importing their goods into the U.S.
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Report: Walmart, Other Importers Need to Speed Zero-Emissions Shift
March 4, 2023
— The report “All Brands On Deck: Top Furniture, Fashion, Retail & Technology Companies Must Act to Abandon Dirty Ships,” analyzed the climate and other pollution impacts of 18 companies importing their goods into the U.S. in 2021. Altogether they were responsible for 3.5 million metric tons of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions, with Walmart, Target and Home Depot leading the way.
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Walmart, Target, Home Depot lead pack of retailers emitting millions of pounds of CO2 through shipping
March 4, 2023
— A new report from the nonprofits Pacific Environment and Stand.earth finds that the ships that carried imports for 18 of the U.S.’s largest retail, fashion, tech, and furniture companies emitted about 3.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2021, about as much as the annual climate pollution from 750,000 passenger cars.
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Nike and These Retail Giants Are Big-Time Ocean Pollution Offenders
March 4, 2023
— Some of the biggest names around have one unfortunate characteristic in common—their cargo shipping operations are major contributors to global climate and air pollution.
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Companies must act to abandon dirty ships: New research names top brands responsible for shipping pollution
March 4, 2023
— New research released today by the Ship It Zero campaign finds that Walmart, Target and Home Depot were the largest ocean import polluters of 2021, as e-commerce demands skyrocketed in the U.S. and globally.
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America’s pandemic shopping haul arrived on dirty cargo ships
March 4, 2023
— A new report aims to quantify the environmental toll of transporting all of those products by sea. The analysis, released on Wednesday by the Ship It Zero coalition, tracks goods imported by 18 major retailers and consumer brands during that frenzied year.
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Pandemic shipping took a heavy toll on the climate
March 4, 2023
— Many Americans remained locked down and logged online throughout 2021, changing the way people shopped for countless goods and services. Initial coverage frequently focused on the ensuing supply chain woes, but new research is showcasing another grave consequence to all that consumption—the ocean shipping industry boom generated massive amounts of greenhouse gasses.
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AMERICAS: US BRANDS ‘NEGLECTING THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES TO EXTEND THEIR CLIMATE COMMITMENTS TO THE SEAS’, SAYS NEW SHIP IT ZERO REPORT
March 4, 2023
— The climate action Ship It Zero campaign has released new research showing that, among US brands, ‘Walmart, Target and Home Depot were the largest ocean import polluters of 2021’.
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COP27: Piecemeal approach keeps us on the highway to climate hell
November 15, 2022
— This week the Ship It Zero campaign berated retail giant Walmart for its failure to join in with emissions abatement measures that would ultimately reduce the company’s climate footprint.
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Green Seas: Cargo owners aim to use their buying power for clean shipping fuels. Is it enough?
October 13, 2022
— Yet the company is aiming to have 100% of its shipping powered by zero-carbon fuels in 2040, without offsets. And it is among founding members of Cargo Owners for Zero Emission Vessels, or COZEV, an alliance of shippers, that have signed on to the same goal.
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Anti-anti-ESG strikes back
September 9, 2022
— The Minneapolis city council unanimously approved a resolution Thursday calling on the country's biggest importing companies to transition to zero-emission goods movement via ships by 2030. The environmental group Pacific Environment, which is behind the resolution, said it had found success pushing IKEA and Amazon to commit to only purchasing zero-emissions vessels by 2040.
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Target Corporation faces local government call for net-zero shipping by 2030
September 9, 2022
— Minneapolis-based US retailer Target Corporation is facing a call from its local government to commit to using shipping with net -zero GHG emissions by 2030. The Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed a resolution on Thursday calling for U.S. firms to commit to making all imports to the country come on net-zero emissions ships by 2030, environmental group Ship it Zero said in a statement on its website in Thursday.
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Amazon to adopt hydrogen fuel in 2025 to decarbonize Its operations
September 1, 2022
— Amazon announced that it would adopt green hydrogen – starting in 2025 – to decarbonize its operations. The contract will provide power for 30,000 forklifts or 800 heavy-duty trucks. Even though ocean shipping was mentioned in the announcement, Amazon did not give a firm commitment to when it would green its ocean cargo shipping operations.
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Amazon to adopt zero-emission fuel after 2021 carbon emissions increase
August 31, 2022
— Amazon announced that it would adopt green hydrogen, starting in 2025, to decarbonize its operations. The contract will provide power for 30,000 forklifts or 800 heavy-duty trucks. Even though ocean shipping was mentioned in the announcement, Amazon did not give a firm commitment to when it would green its ocean cargo shipping operations.
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Amazon urged to turn attention to ocean shipping following green hydrogen pledge
August 31, 2022
— Amazon’s decision to adopt green hydrogen, starting in 2025, to power forklifts and heavy-duty trucks does not go far enough, says NGO coalition, Pacific Environment.
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Amazon announces adoption of zero-emission fuel following revelation of 2021 carbon emissions spike
August 31, 2022
— Amazon announced that it would adopt green hydrogen – starting in 2025 – to decarbonize its operations. The contract will provide power for 30,000 forklifts or 800 heavy-duty trucks. Even though ocean shipping was mentioned in the announcement, Amazon did not give a firm commitment to when it would green its ocean cargo shipping operations.
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World’s longest green corridor planned between Singapore and Rotterdam
August 12, 2022
— Efforts are underway to form the world’s longest green corridor to enable low and zero carbon shipping between the hubs of Singapore in the Far East and Rotterdam in Europe.
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Amazon will have a hard time reaching net zero after emissions rose 18% last year
August 11, 2022
— This week, retail giant Amazon announced that its carbon emissions jumped by a staggering 18% in 2021 during the pandemic and, overall, its emissions are up 40% since 2019. The vast majority of these increases came from many of the out-of-sight, out-of-mind things it takes to get billions of packages to consumers’ front doors—think: ships, planes, trucks, and warehouses.
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Cargo ships are notoriously dirty. A new bill aims to clean them up
July 14, 2022
— The Clean Shipping Act, proposed this week in Congress, would curb CO2 pollution from shipping and accelerate the adoption of nascent technologies.
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Ship it Zero coalition hosting webinar on ‘impacts of shipping pollution’
July 12, 2022
— The Ship It Zero coalition will be hosting a webinar today (12 July) which will feature medical and climate experts and ‘impacted community members’ sharing insights on ‘the public health impacts of port pollution from ocean shipping’.
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California lawmakers are ready to decarbonize the shipping industry. The technology isn’t there yet.
July 11, 2022
— Late last month, Long Beach, California, signed onto a historic effort to clean up the shipping industry when city council members unanimously passed a resolution to reach 100 percent zero-emissions shipping by 2030.
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Ship It Zero coalition sends open letter to Target requesting meeting to discuss health-harming pollution
July 5, 2022
— In an open letter to Brian Cornell, CEO of Target, the coalition is holding the retailer accountable for its outsized role in the port congestion crisis.
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Long Beach City Council OKs resolution calling for 100% zero-emissions shipping
June 23, 2022
— “As a hub for international trade, Long Beach and its residents face significant impacts from cargo ship pollutants,” Al Austin II, Long Beach City Council Member, District 8, said.
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San Pedro Bay Port Complex to Commit to 100% Zero-Emissions Ocean Shipping by 2030
June 23, 2022
— Long Beach City Councilmember Cindy Allen introduced the resolution on Earth Day, calling on Long Beach’s top maritime importers to commit to making all port calls to the San Pedro Port Complex, which includes the Port of Long Beach, on 100% zero-emissions ships by 2030.
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Ship It Zero resolution passes Long Beach City Council
June 22, 2022
— This resolution would unite the nation’s largest ports, Los Angeles and Long Beach – and the largest U.S. seaport complex – in making the commitment of zero-emissions ocean shipping by 2030.
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Ship It Zero Coalition to CMA CGM: Cancel orders for 10 LNG dual fuel vessels
June 8, 2022
— Climate and public health campaign Ship It Zero on Monday (6 June) has called on shipping and logistics player CMA CGM to cancel its recent orders for 10 liquefied natural gas (LNG) dual fuel vessels.
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Ship It Zero Coalition to CMA CGM: time to set sail on zero-emissions ships is now
June 7, 2022
— CMA-CGM, top ocean shipping supplier for Walmart, announced that it has ordered six ships with dual-fuel methanol engines as part of its climate strategy.
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Ship It Zero calls on shipowners to turn away from fossil fuels
May 27, 2022
— The Ship it Zero coalition is urging shipowners to only use zero-emission technologies and fuels for their future vessels – to make any new investments in fossil fuels is ‘moral and economic madness,’ it says.
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Ship It Zero To Shipping Companies: Any New Investments In Fossil Fuels Is “Moral And Economic Madness”
May 25, 2022
— Executive Director Alex Levinson of Pacific Environment and Executive Director Todd Paglia of Stand.earth sent a letter to major shipping companies urging them to invest in only zero-emissions technologies and fuels for their future global fleets.
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Environmental Groups Urge Shipping Industry To Commit To Zero-Emissions Fleets
May 25, 2022
— On May 23, the Ship It Zero coalition sent an open letter to shipping companies, including CMA CGM Group, A.P. Moller-Maersk, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, Evergreen Marine, and Ocean Network Express to urge them to cancel all new fossil fuel ship builds in their order books and invest only in zero-emissions technologies and fuels for their future global fleets.
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Supply Chain Professionals Can Lead on Green Freight
May 13, 2022
— Pollution from freight operations can increasingly be connected back to the company that’s moving goods. The ocean shipping emissions footprint of IKEA, Target and Walmart, were calculated by Ship It Zero, a coalition of climate, clean air and consumer advocates.
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Pacific Basin, Nihon Shipyard and Mitsui team up on zero-emission vessels
May 12, 2022
— Hong Kong-based Pacific Basin Shipping, an owner and operator of dry bulk vessels, has collaborated with Japan’s Nihon Shipyard and Mitsui & Co for the investigation and development of commercially-feasible zero-emission vessels (ZEV).
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Escuche: ¿Puede el corredor marítimo ecológico Los Ángeles-Shanghai salvar el sector y el planeta?
May 2, 2022
— The shipping sector faces a massive challenge in decarbonizing to meet global climate goals. To accelerate those efforts, leaders at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow last year agreed to develop at least six green shipping corridors by 2025 and many more by 2030.
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EN FOTOS: Activistas medioambientales protestan por la contaminación de los envíos de Target
April 29, 2022
— “I moved to Long Beach back in 2018, and I remember going to the ocean with some friends. They brought up that they weren’t going to swim, because they didn’t trust that the water was clean, and this was new to me."
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Feliz Día de la Tierra, Sr. Presidente: Los habitantes de Seattle protestan contra Biden en la firma de la orden ejecutiva
April 27, 2022
— On Friday, local community members showed up in droves to watch President Joe Biden’s arrival at Seward Park. Environmental activists representing the “Ship It Zero” campaign were in attendance and held various signs encouraging Biden to commit to zero-emission shipping by 2030.
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Biden firma una orden de protección de árboles antiguos en su visita al Día de la Tierra en Seattle
April 25, 2022
— Despite the president talking about his willingness to help fight global warming, advocates for various climate-conscious organizations and Republicans say Biden needs to do more.
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Los ecologistas de la Costa Oeste intensifican sus llamamientos a favor de los corredores verdes y el transporte marítimo con cero emisiones
April 25, 2022
— As US President Joe Biden visited Seattle on Earth Day (Friday, 22 April), environmental activists held rallies in the nearby port as well as in Long Beach and Bellingham in support of their calls for a green shipping corridor between Seattle and Busan.
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Los adolescentes protestan contra la contaminación de los océanos por parte de las empresas
April 25, 2022
— Jack Beglin, 13, faked his death at the Bellingham Target on Earth Day, surrounded by classmates and teachers. He “died” peacefully, calling for the corporate giant and the entire maritime shipping industry to become more environmentally conscious.
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Activistas medioambientales celebran la protesta del Día de la Tierra mientras Biden visita el Parque Seward
April 25, 2022
— On Friday, local community members showed up in droves to watch President Joe Biden’s arrival at Seward Park. Environmental activists representing the “Ship It Zero” campaign were in attendance for the event and held various signs encouraging Biden to commit to zero-emission shipping by 2030.
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En el Día de la Tierra, los activistas piden que se tomen medidas más rápidas contra las emisiones del transporte marítimo
April 25, 2022
— Activists in three West Coast cities took to the streets on Earth Day to ask shipping to accelerate its plans for climate action - not by pressuring shipowners, but by appealing to their customers.
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Activistas climáticos de Long Beach protestan por la contaminación de los barcos en el Día de la Tierra
April 25, 2022
— A group of more than 50 environmental activists organized a protest on Friday, marching from Whaley Park to the Target store on Bellflower Boulevard in East Long Beach.
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AMÉRICA: SHIP IT ZERO PIDE UN CORREDOR MARÍTIMO ECOLÓGICO SEATTLE-BUSAN
April 22, 2022
— Timed to coincide with President Biden’s visit to Seattle and Portland, the Ship It Zero coalition has issued a call for federal government to use funding from the $1 trillion national infrastructure package to create a green shipping corridor between Seattle and Busan, South Korea.
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Cinco puertos europeos se asocian con el Centro Mærsk para crear un corredor verde
April 6, 2022
— Five Northern European port authorities have entered a partnership with the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Centre for Zero Carbon Shipping to create a new European Green Corridors Network.
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Esta startup diseñó un carguero eléctrico para cruzar el océano
April 6, 2022
— Fleetzero plans to soon begin crossing the Pacific with smaller electric ships that swap batteries at ports along the way, in a system that it says could prove cheaper than shipping with fossil fuels.
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La logística se pone en marcha de forma sostenible
April 6, 2022
— A truckload of technologies, partnerships and global agreements are putting solutions, some of them decades old, on a fast, or at least faster, track. Combine that with corporate and government purchasing commitments that stoke demand for greener logistics options, along with stepped-up regulatory pressure to decarbonize the transportation sector, and you have the makings of a disruptive shift.
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El número de proyectos de transporte marítimo con cero emisiones casi se duplicó el año pasado
April 4, 2022
— A new report from the Getting to Zero Coalition mapping pilot projects and demonstrations reports that the number of initiatives has nearly doubled in the past year with the strongest growth coming in Asia.
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Maersk es la primera naviera que se une al compromiso climático de Amazon
March 16, 2022
— Nearly 100 additional companies, including Maersk, have joined The Climate Pledge, an environmental imitative in part led by Amazon where signatories commit to achieving full decarbonization of their operations by 2040, ten years ahead of the Paris Agreement.
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Gran semana de innovaciones para el transporte marítimo con cero emisiones
March 11, 2022
— This past week, ocean cargo shipping had mentions during the World Oceans Summit, in President Biden’s State of the Union Address, and saw two new announcements with zero-emissions technological advancements.
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Ship It Zero pide a Walmart que abandone el transporte marítimo con combustibles fósiles
February 23, 2022
— Climate advocates with the Ship It Zero campaign are calling on Walmart to end its reliance on fossil-fuelled ocean shipping.
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Campaña Ship It Zero a Walmart: La protección de los océanos requiere un envío con cero emisiones
February 23, 2022
— Walmart Senior Vice President for Sustainability Jane Ewing will be a keynote speaker at the 9th annual World Ocean Summit Virtual Week taking place from March 1–4, 2022. Climate advocates with the Ship It Zero campaign are calling on Walmart to stop ignoring its massive ocean and climate pollution problem, as the company touts its narrow focus on overfishing.
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La ESW ofrecerá a partir de ahora un transporte marítimo neutro en carbono
February 16, 2022
— With an entire business based on delivering products to consumers’ doors, a “sustainable” DTC brand can sound like an oxymoron. Despite an emphasis on upcycled goods and eco-friendly materials, shipping and freight remain among the greatest polluters in the retail industry.
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Ship It Zero se felicita por el Energy Observer 2 y reitera su llamamiento a los minoristas para que utilicen buques con cero emisiones
February 14, 2022
— The Ship It Zero coalition has welcomed the unveiling of the hydrogen-fueled Energy Observer 2 and called on major retailers to ‘use this moment’ to ‘adopt zero-emission shipping solutions now.'
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Los parques eólicos marinos podrían servir de estaciones de carga eléctrica para los barcos
February 14, 2022
— Offshore wind farms already provide gigawatts of clean electricity to the grid worldwide. Now efforts are underway to supply some of that wind-blown power directly to ships.
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Ship It Zero da la bienvenida al Energy Observer 2 y reitera su llamamiento a los minoristas para que utilicen buques con cero emisiones
February 11, 2022
— The Ship It Zero coalition has welcomed the unveiling of the hydrogen-fueled Energy Observer 2 and called on major retailers to ‘use this moment’ to ‘adopt zero-emission shipping solutions now.'
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La Coalición Ship It Zero pide a Walmart, Target, Amazon e IKEA que trasladen su negocio a transportistas que ofrezcan soluciones de cero emisiones
February 10, 2022
— Today, Energy Observer is scheduled on Thursday, February 10 to announce a new zero-emissions cargo ship at the One Ocean Summit in Brest, France.
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Los gigantes del transporte marítimo, en tela de juicio por sus beneficios y tarifas récord
February 4, 2022
— Shipping giants have come under fire from U.S. business groups and watchdogs for raking in record-breaking profits on the backs of skyrocketing prices driven by unprecedented port congestion.
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Los puertos de Los Ángeles y Shanghái se asocian en un corredor marítimo ecológico
February 3, 2022
— The Ports of Los Angeles and Shanghai have announced plans to create a green shipping corridor on the transpacific trade.
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Los defensores de los derechos humanos acogen con satisfacción el anuncio de los puertos de Los Ángeles y Shanghái sobre el compromiso del primer corredor marítimo ecológico transpacífico
February 1, 2022
— The Port of Los Angeles, Port of Shanghai, and C40 Cities have announced that they will work with industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the movement of cargo throughout the 2020s, including a goal to “begin” transitioning to zero-carbon fueled ships by 2030 to cut emissions from one of the world’s busiest cargo routes.
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Maersk pone en marcha la primera estación de carga de buques eléctricos en alta mar del mundo
January 28, 2022
— Now is the perfect time for international ocean shipping companies to invest their record profits into a horizon of hope for our shared future on this planet.
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Nuevo estudio: Las pioneras normas sobre diésel de California salvan vidas
January 28, 2022
— Jesse Marquez, executive director of the Coalition for a Safe Environment and a resident of the portside community of Wilmington, pointed to the role of environmental justice advocates in pushing for cleaner air. “The port did not do this on their own. (The air board) did not do this on their own,” he said. “We forced it to happen.”
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El primer portacontenedores totalmente eléctrico del mundo
January 27, 2022
— The world's first all-electric container ship will save 1,000 tons of CO2 and eliminate the need for 40,000 delivery trips by diesel-powered trucks per year.
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Maersk abordará la contaminación atmosférica en los puertos con boyas de carga de buques
January 26, 2022
— Shipping group Maersk plans to install hundreds of offshore charging stations around the world to allow vessels to power themselves with electricity instead of fossil fuels while waiting outside ports.
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Maersk podría empujar a todo el sector marítimo a avanzar en sus objetivos climáticos
January 13, 2022
— Maersk’s announcement raises the pressure on its rivals to cut emissions more aggressively. The rest of the world’s largest shipping lines are also sitting on billions of dollars of pandemic profits.
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Ship It Zero califica el compromiso de Maersk para 2040 como un "paso necesario" hacia el transporte marítimo de mercancías con cero emisiones
January 13, 2022
— Ship It Zero coalition members Stand.earth and Pacific Environment say Maersk’s decision to aim for net zero climate emissions by 2040 – 10 years earlier than its initial target date– is an ‘industry-leading commitment’ but they have expressed concern that the shipping giant’s 2030 goals rely on offsets.
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El mar del amor
December 15, 2021
— Dawny’all Heydari of the advocacy group Pacific Environment calls on the shipping industry to immediately adopt emission-reduction technologies and strategies – and speed up the transition away from fossil fuels
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Almacenes en sus patios": cuando Amazon se expande, estas comunidades pagan el precio
December 10, 2021
— The neighborhood is one of hundreds across the US where Amazon’s dramatic expansion has set in motion huge commercial operations. Residents near the new warehouses say they face increased air pollution from trucks and vans, more dangerous streets for kids walking or biking and other quality-of-life issues such as clogged traffic and near-constant noise.
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Para algunos, el embotellamiento del transporte presagia unas fiestas contaminadas
December 8, 2021
— Pandemic-related supply chain issues have slowed the flow of goods into American homes, even as the ports move to speed up operations. For many, that means delays on holiday gifts, but for locals like Chavez, who was diagnosed with asthma as a child and now works for the Coalition for Clean Air, the excessive pollution related to shipping and trucking congestion at the ports raises concerns about his health, and that of his community.
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Un informe revela que las grandes superficies contribuyen a la contaminación y a la congestión portuaria
December 7, 2021
— The report revealed that between 2018 to 2020, these retailers, among others, were responsible for 20 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions for goods imported to the US.
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El caos en la cadena de suministro está provocando el mayor aumento de las emisiones de los buques en más de una década
December 3, 2021
— A study published on Monday by Ship it Zero, an advocacy organization, estimates that ocean shipping by Walmart produces 11.5 million tons, equivalent to roughly 1% percent of annual shipping emissions in 2018, while Amazon produces about 1.5 million tons of CO2.
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La crisis de la cadena de suministro está causando estragos en el medio ambiente, ya que las emisiones de carbono de los buques y los puertos marítimos alcanzan la tasa más alta desde 2008
December 3, 2021
— "The retail brands that fill our homes and lives with their products bear a direct responsibility both for the pollution that the maritime shipping in their supply chains creates and for taking the necessary actions to demand emissions reductions now and 100 per cent zero emissions shipping this decade," the report said.
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Los cargadores y los transportistas marítimos en el punto de mira por el aumento de las ventas minoristas en EE.UU.
December 1, 2021
— Amazon and Target have played an “outsized role” in the congestion at the US west coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, according to a study by the Ship It Zero Coalition, which is comprised of environmental and public health advocates, scientists, and shipping experts who are lobbying companies to “achieve zero-emissions shipping by 2030.”
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Acusan a Amazon de desempeñar un papel "excesivo" en el caos de la cadena de suministro
December 1, 2021
— According to the report, Amazon, Target, Walmart and Ikea are some of America’s worst offenders in this regard. These four companies alone emit 20 million metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere, as much as all marine shipping generates in two years.
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Se presiona al sector naviero para que reduzca la contaminación causada por la flota mercante
December 1, 2021
— The global shipping industry is coming under increasing pressure to cut the pollution created by the world's merchant fleet.
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Las compras en línea están convirtiendo la alta mar en una autopista supercontaminante
December 1, 2021
— A new report released by Stand.earth and Pacific Environment determined maritime shipping for those four companies alone accounted for some 20 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent over the past two years, the majority of which stemmed from goods transported between China and the U.S. West Coast.
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Amazon, Walmart y los mayores minoristas del mundo empeoran la congestión portuaria y la contaminación, según un nuevo informe
December 1, 2021
— "Until recently, the massive climate disrupting and human health harming emissions from international container shipping — and the companies that are buying their services — have sailed under the radar of public scrutiny," the report said.
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Amazon y Target alimentan la contaminación portuaria y perjudican a las comunidades: Informe
December 1, 2021
— According to the report by non-profit environmental groups Pacific Environment and Stand.earth, fossil-fueled cargo container ships have idled off the shores of the San Pedro Bay Ports for months, bringing higher levels of asthma and cancer-associated air pollutants, including particulate matter, nitrogen oxide, and sulfur oxide into the port-adjacent communities.
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Una nueva e innovadora investigación descubre los estrechos vínculos entre los transportistas de carga contaminantes y los principales minoristas de EE.UU.
December 1, 2021
— New research released today by Ship It Zero coalition members Stand.earth and Pacific Environment takes an in-depth look at four major retail companies that import goods into the United States — Walmart, Target, Amazon, and IKEA — and maps their often-hidden relationships with the fossil-fueled cargo carriers they hire to transport their goods.
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¿Por qué Walmart, Amazon, Target e IKEA tienen unas emisiones de envío tan elevadas?
November 30, 2021
— Released on Cyber Monday, a new report from Ship It Zero coalition members Stand.earth and Pacific Environment details the relationship between four major retailers that ship goods to the U.S. — Walmart, Amazon, Target and IKEA — and the fossil-fueled carrier companies that make that shipping possible.
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Amazon y Target juegan un papel "descomunal" en la congestión y contaminación de los puertos, según un informe
November 30, 2021
— Amazon and Target are playing a big role in the port pollution crisis along the US West Coast, according to a report published today. These retail giants are among the top importers in the US and rely heavily on shipping routes between China and California.
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Se insta a los principales minoristas y transportistas a actuar con mayor rapidez para reducir las emisiones del transporte marítimo
November 29, 2021
— 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.
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Un informe sobre el Cyber Monday revela que la cadena de suministro de los gigantes del comercio minorista de EE.UU. destruye el clima
November 29, 2021
— As shoppers scoured the internet for holiday deals on Cyber Monday, a pair of environmental groups published a report that exposes the planet-heating maritime shipping practices of four major global retailers: Amazon, IKEA, Target, and Walmart.
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Los grupos ecologistas presionan a los operadores de líneas marítimas para que hagan un transporte con cero emisiones
November 29, 2021
— Retailers are starting to heed the call, Stand.earth and Pacific Environment say.
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Amazon y Target juegan un "papel descomunal" en la congestión portuaria de California en comparación con sus competidores Ikea y Walmart, según un nuevo estudio
November 29, 2021
— The report breaks down the shipping routes and carriers used by Amazon, Target, Ikea, and Walmart in order to estimate the greenhouse gas emissions released by cargo ships.
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Ship It Zero pretende zarpar con cargas bajas en carbono
November 29, 2021
— Cargo ships have been idling at the port of Los Angeles for months due to the backlog caused by labor shortages, supply chain problems and the ongoing ripple effects of COVID-19.
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Cómo perjudica el Black Friday a las comunidades negras y marrones
November 25, 2021
— Like many other ports across the U.S., the Port of LA is adjacent to Black and brown communities, where people breathe in more pollution and have higher rates of asthma, cancer and premature death than their white community neighbors.
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El "agresivo" objetivo de hacer que los buques del puerto de Los Ángeles sean 100% de cero emisiones
November 20, 2021
— Los Angeles' City Council adopted an ambitious maritime resolution last [year] that calls on top importers like Walmart, Dole, Nike, Amazon and Home Depot on 100% zero-emissions ships by 2030, even though the technology doesn't yet exist.
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El sector marítimo se enfrenta a un ajuste de cuentas por la crisis climática: ¿se descarbonizará?
November 12, 2021
— Until now, shipping companies, which operate in remote international waters far from the public eye, have managed to avoid meaningful climate regulation. But the industry is facing a reckoning.
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El Ayuntamiento de Los Ángeles adopta una resolución pionera en el mundo que reclama un transporte marítimo con cero emisiones en los dos principales puertos de Estados Unidos para 2030
November 10, 2021
— Yesterday, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to adopt Councilmember Nithya Raman’s resolution calling on ships calling at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to ensure to be 100% zero-emissions by 2030.
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El Ayuntamiento de Los Ángeles pide a los principales importadores del puerto que utilicen buques con cero emisiones
November 10, 2021
— The Los Angeles City Council today called on the top maritime importers in Los Angeles to commit to making all port calls to the San Pedro Port Complex via zero-emission ships by 2030.
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La nueva coalición espera crear impulsores de la demanda de soluciones sostenibles
November 5, 2021
— A new multinational coalition aims to decarbonize “hard-to-abate” sectors such as shipping and provide much-needed demand signals for zero-emissions fuels and technologies.
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Mientras 100 barcos permanecen inactivos en alta mar, las comunidades de California ven aumentar los contaminantes tóxicos
October 28, 2021
— Together, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are responsible for about 40 percent of the country’s imports. Now, cargo ships are being forced to wait offshore for an average of 10 days as increased consumer spending, labor shortages, and other issues brought on or worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic continue to impact supply chains and cause slowdowns.
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Los atascos en los puertos de Los Ángeles y Long Beach provocan problemas de contaminación atmosférica
October 28, 2021
— Pollution is becoming a growing problem for people living near the congested ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
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Todo ha merecido la pena": las partes interesadas celebran la apertura del Climate Pledge Arena en el Seattle Center
October 28, 2021
— Climate Pledge Arena at Seattle Center is now officially open to the public.
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Los grandes transportistas prometen cero emisiones de carbono para 2040. Demasiado tarde, dicen los activistas del clima
October 27, 2021
— Major shippers including Amazon, Ikea, and Unilever say they will stop putting their stuff on ships that burn fossil fuels in the next 20 years.
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Amazon, Ikea y otras grandes empresas se comprometen a realizar envíos con cero emisiones en 2040
October 19, 2021
— In an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in global trade, a coalition of companies that includes Amazon and Ikea has pledged to use only ocean shippers that use zero-carbon fuel by 2040.
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Amazon, Ikea y Unilever se comprometen a realizar envíos con cero emisiones en 2040
October 19, 2021
— Amazon, Ikea, Unilever and Michelin are among nine multinational companies that have committed to switching all of their ocean freight to vessels powered by zero-carbon fuels by 2040.
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Amazon y otras empresas se comprometen a utilizar combustibles de transporte con cero emisiones de carbono para 2040
October 19, 2021
— Amazon and IKEA are among commercial users of container shipping that will opt for zero-carbon marine fuels by 2040 in a new initiative aimed at speeding up decarbonisation in the maritime sector.
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Amazon, Ikea y Unilever se comprometen a realizar envíos sin emisiones de carbono en 2040
October 19, 2021
— Nine big companies including Amazon, Ikea and Unilever have signed up to a pledge to only move cargo on ships using zero-carbon fuel by 2040.
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El puerto se fija como objetivo para 2030 un aire más respirable a través de una estrategia marítima de aire limpio
October 15, 2021
— The Port of San Diego board has approved a policy intended to help the agency identify projects and initiatives to improve health through cleaner air around San Diego Bay.
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Barcos retenidos en los puertos de EE.UU. que expulsan contaminantes mientras están inactivos
October 15, 2021
— The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, two of the nation’s busiest, create more than 100 tons a day of smog that choke local communities.
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Ikea denunciada por su papel en las emisiones de los barcos
October 7, 2021
— Climate activists are demanding Dutch-based homeware giant Ikea to transition to zero-emissions cargo shipping vessels by 2030.
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El transporte marítimo mundial es un gran emisor, el sector debe comprometerse a tomar medidas drásticas antes de que sea demasiado tarde
September 20, 2021
— Last week three Pacific Island states – the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Kiribati and the Solomon Islands – officially asked the IMO to drastically scale up its ambition for decarbonising the shipping sector.
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Ikea: El transporte marítimo desempeña un papel fundamental para alcanzar la neutralidad climática en 2030
September 17, 2021
— As one of the major US importers, Ikea shares part of the responsibility for carbons emissions from the container fleet, as established by a recent report. Sea freight is important for our carbon plans, Ikea tells ShippingWatch.
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Søren Toft promete que el MSC será de red cero en 2050
September 16, 2021
— Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has gone on the record to publicly state for the first time its intention to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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Transporte marítimo con cero emisiones | Cronkite News
September 9, 2021
— The demand for everything Amazon delivers only seems to grow, but environmental activists are demanding use of zero-emission shipping to reduce the impact of transportation on our air and oceans.
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Los activistas del clima denuncian la contaminación de los barcos en el Amazonas
September 1, 2021
— Climate activists with the Ship It Zero coalition gathered near major American ports on Tuesday, as part of two separate events demanding that retail giant Amazon transitions to zero-emissions cargo shipping vessels.
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Los activistas piden que el transporte marítimo minorista se comprometa a no emitir emisiones en 2030
20 de agosto de 2021
- El sector minorista estadounidense debería iniciar urgentemente su transición hacia un transporte marítimo con cero emisiones para 2030, según un informe de Stand.earth y Pacific Environment.
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Cartas al director: La contaminación por diésel está matando a los residentes de la zona portuaria. ¿Por qué no es una emergencia?
19 de agosto de 2021
- La contaminación de los puertos de Los Ángeles y Long Beach no sólo está asfixiando al sur de California; está matando a los residentes de las comunidades cercanas a los puertos. Estamos en una emergencia de salud pública, pero nadie está respondiendo a ella como tal.
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El secreto sucio de los minoristas: las emisiones del transporte de mercancías
9 de agosto de 2021
- Los minoristas se jactan de sus ambiciosos objetivos de emisiones. Sin embargo, el mero hecho de transportar sus productos por el océano genera más emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero que todos los 2.000 millones de coches y camiones de Estados Unidos juntos. Los minoristas (y los fabricantes) pueden esperar enfrentarse a presiones cada vez mayores para controlar y gestionar sus emisiones de transporte marítimo.
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¿Cuál es el verdadero coste de enviar todos tus trastos a través del océano?
31 de julio de 2021
- Walmart y otros gigantes del comercio minorista importan millones de productos en buques de carga contaminantes.
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Por qué Walmart, Target, Amazon e Ikea necesitan barcos más ecológicos
27 de julio de 2021
- Por qué los minoristas de "red cero" deberían liderar el impulso a las prácticas de envío más ecológicas.
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¿Cuál es el verdadero coste de enviar todos tus trastos a través del océano?
27 de julio de 2021
- Walmart y otros gigantes del comercio minorista importan millones de productos en buques de carga contaminantes.
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Estas 15 empresas minoristas de EE.UU. tienen la peor huella de envío de carga
27 de julio de 2021
- Cuando Ikea anunció la entrega a domicilio 100% eléctrica en algunas ciudades y Amazon empezó a trabajar para realizar entregas con cero emisiones, ambos obtuvieron una cantidad decente de crédito. Lo mismo ocurre con la instalación de cargadores para vehículos eléctricos por parte de Walmart o la adopción del diseño circular por parte de Target. Sin embargo, mientras que estos minoristas pueden estar tomando algunas medidas sustanciales para mitigar las emisiones, todavía hay un elefante considerable, que se mueve en el océano en la habitación. Y ese elefante huele a combustible de búnker.
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Un nuevo informe revela cuáles son los 15 gigantes del comercio minorista que más contribuyen a la crisis climática a través de los envíos con combustibles fósiles
22 de julio de 2021
- Un nuevo informe revela cuáles son los 15 gigantes del comercio minorista que más afectan al medio ambiente y a la salud pública. Según el informe, las opciones de fabricación y transporte de las empresas minoristas son "condenatorias".
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Walmart, Target y Amazon están entre los mayores contaminantes corporativos gracias a los envíos al extranjero
22 de julio de 2021
- Un nuevo informe de Pacific Environment y Stand.earth revela que 15 grandes empresas emiten tanta contaminación climática en sus envíos al extranjero como 1,5 millones de hogares estadounidenses.
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Barcos de sombra: Por qué los minoristas de "red cero" deberían liderar el impulso a las prácticas de envío más ecológicas
22 de julio de 2021
- Un análisis del impacto de los envíos de los principales minoristas de Estados Unidos revela que 15 empresas son responsables de tanta contaminación por óxido de azufre, óxido nitroso y partículas como decenas de millones de vehículos.
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América: Un nuevo estudio establece la relación entre los minoristas y las emisiones de los envíos
22 de julio de 2021
- Las ONG Pacific Environment y Stand.earth afirman que su informe Shady Ships, recientemente publicado, es el primer estudio que "cuantifica el impacto en el medio ambiente y la salud pública" de la "dependencia de los minoristas estadounidenses de la fabricación en el extranjero y del transporte transoceánico con combustibles fósiles".
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Los grupos ecologistas apuntan a los gigantes del comercio minorista como contaminadores del transporte marítimo
22 de julio de 2021
- El informe cita a 15 de los principales minoristas como malos actores en los esfuerzos de sostenibilidad.
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Las 15 principales empresas minoristas de EE.UU. contaminan más con los envíos que 1,5 millones de hogares estadounidenses
21 de julio de 2021
- Los 15 principales minoristas de Estados Unidos fueron responsables de tanta contaminación climática en 2019, solo por sus envíos, como la energía utilizada para alimentar a 1,5 millones de hogares estadounidenses, según un informe publicado el lunes por Pacific Environment.
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Walmart, Ikea y Amazon tienen un problema de envíos sucios
20 de julio de 2021
- Un nuevo informe identifica a los mayores responsables de las emisiones marítimas.
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El peaje oculto del transporte marítimo
20 de julio de 2021
- Un nuevo informe analiza la cantidad de emisiones relacionadas con los envíos que generan minoristas como Walmart, Ikea, Amazon y Target.
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Walmart encabeza la lista de minoristas estadounidenses que contaminan las importaciones marítimas
20 de julio de 2021
- Los transportistas, que ya están sintiendo la presión de sus principales clientes para que reduzcan su huella de carbono, probablemente recibirán llamadas más urgentes tras la publicación hoy de un informe en el que se pone de manifiesto qué cadenas minoristas son las que más contaminan en Estados Unidos gracias a sus opciones de transporte.
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EGEB: Las importaciones de barcos de estos 15 minoristas estadounidenses contaminan tanto como 3 centrales de carbón al año
20 de julio de 2021
- Según un estudio publicado hoy por las organizaciones ecologistas Pacific Environment y Stand.earth, sólo 15 minoristas emiten tanta contaminación por transporte marítimo como el equivalente a 1,5 millones de hogares estadounidenses.
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Estas 15 empresas son las que mayor huella dejan en el transporte de mercancías
20 de julio de 2021
- Un nuevo informe analiza qué empresas generan más emisiones al transportar sus productos por el océano en barcos contaminantes.
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Una agencia secreta de la ONU, encargada de luchar contra el cambio climático, hace lo contrario
3 de junio de 2021
- A puerta cerrada, los constructores navales y los mineros pueden hablar en nombre de los gobiernos mientras regulan una industria que contamina tanto como todas las plantas de carbón de Estados Unidos.
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Combustibles de carbono cero y transporte marítimo: ¿Una voluntad y un camino?
25 de mayo de 2021
- El sector del transporte marítimo consume alrededor de 10 cuatrillones de unidades térmicas británicas (Btus) de combustible y emite 1.000 millones de toneladas métricas de dióxido de carbono cada año.
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IKEA rechaza el GNL para el transporte marítimo
12 de mayo de 2021
- La empresa de muebles IKEA, gran usuaria del transporte marítimo, ha rechazado el uso del GNL como combustible marítimo.
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El sector naviero impulsa "medidas basadas en el mercado" para ayudar a alcanzar los objetivos de descarbonización
21 de abril de 2021
- Varias de las principales organizaciones marítimas del mundo están pidiendo a los líderes mundiales que examinen urgentemente el papel de las llamadas medidas basadas en el mercado (MBM) para garantizar que se cumplan los ambiciosos objetivos de descarbonización en todo el sector marítimo mundial.
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Las emisiones del sector marítimo siguen aumentando, según los nuevos datos de la OMI
24 de marzo de 2021
- Las nuevas cifras muestran que desde 2012 se han producido mejoras significativas en la intensidad del carbono, aunque éstas se han ralentizado en los últimos años.
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Los grupos navieros recurren a los algoritmos para reducir las emisiones de carbono
3 de marzo de 2021
- El grupo naviero líder Maersk Tankers está invirtiendo decenas de millones de dólares en tecnología digital para acelerar la reducción de las emisiones de carbono en todo el sector, según ha declarado su director ejecutivo a Reuters.
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Un nuevo informe afirma que Amazon está contaminando los océanos con 22 millones de libras de plásticos al año
15 de diciembre de 2020
- Nuestros océanos se están llenando de plástico. Entre 4,8 y 12,7 millones de toneladas métricas de este material entran en las vías fluviales cada año, perturbando el ecosistema, ensuciando las playas y matando a innumerables criaturas marinas.
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El gas natural no descarbonizará el transporte marítimo, pero el combustible está aquí para quedarse
4 de febrero de 2020
- Las inversiones en buques propulsados por gas natural licuado crecen a pesar del debate sobre el impacto del gas en el medio ambiente.
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Cómo planea Amazon hacer que la mitad de sus envíos sean neutros en carbono para 2030
21 de febrero de 2019
- Aunque la empresa lo niega, su nuevo objetivo llega tras la presión de trabajadores y accionistas para que haga algo con su enorme huella de carbono.
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Ship It Zero es una campaña sobre el clima y la salud pública para que las mayores empresas minoristas del mundo realicen un transporte marítimo con cero emisiones.
