Opening a horizon of hope: Ship It Zero turns one!
July 18, 2022 — Today, we mark Ship It Zero’s one-year anniversary. It’s a moment to reflect on what we’ve accomplished and where we’re going — because there’s still more work to do.
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Open Letter to Target From The Medical Community
July 12, 2022 — While international shipping is frequently low profile, the air pollution emissions from this sector have very real health impacts on coastal and port communities.
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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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Open Letter to Target from Long Beach and Los Angeles Ship It Zero coalition
June 28, 2022 — We, the undersigned members of the Los Angeles and Long Beach Ship It Zero coalition, consisting of climate, environmental justice, public health, and faith groups, write to request a meeting with [Target CEO Brian Cornell] in Southern California regarding health-harming pollution from your ocean cargo imports.
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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 Resolution Passes Long Beach City Council
June 22, 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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Target AGM 2022: Full Statements from the Ship It Zero coalition
June 6, 2022 — Port Residents Demand Zero-Emissions Shipping at Target Annual General Meeting.
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Ship It Zero Coalition to CMA CGM: time to set sail on zero-emissions ships is now
June 6, 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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Listen: Can the Los Angeles-Shanghai green shipping corridor save the sector and the planet?
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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Houston and Walmart must clean up their port pollution
April 5, 2022 — Cleaning up our ports isn’t just an environmental issue; it’s a matter of building a healthier America and world. It’s about time that Houston, Walmart, and CMA-CGM act to clean up our ports and protect our neighbors.
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Walmart’s Dirty Shipping Problem
March 23, 2022 — In advance of the upcoming Society of Environmental Journalists Conference, we are providing a backgrounder with Houston shipping facts and some information on how Walmart has contributed to port pollution nationwide and in the Houston area.
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Introducing “End Port Pollution Now” Demand
February 24, 2022 — The Ship It Zero campaign is excited to announce the addition of our newest demand to retailers and their ocean shipping carriers, End Port Pollution Now.
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Maersk launches the world’s first offshore electric vessel-charging station venture
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.
READ MORE Maersk to Test Electric Charging Stations for Ports, Reducing Emissions From Fossil-fueled Ocean Cargo Ships by 5 Million Tons a Year Overall
January 26, 2022 — The Ship it Zero coalition applauded Maersk’s announcement to move towards zero-emissions shipping and called on other major shipping companies, like CMA-CGM, MSc, Cosco, Evergreen, and Yang Ming to follow its lead and continue building on this horizon of hope for our shared future.
READ MORE Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council Adopts Ship It Zero Resolution
January 13, 2022 — The Los Angeles area receives 40% of all containerized cargo imports to the United States coming through the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, making the surrounding communities – which are primarily communities of color – particularly vulnerable to harmful pollutants.
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Sea of Love
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
READ MORE Minneapolis Council Members to Call on Target Corporation to Transition to Clean Ocean Cargo Ships
December 15, 2021 — Minneapolis Council VP Andrea Jenkins, Council member-elect Robin Wonsley Warlobah, Council member-elect Aisha Chughtai, and the Faith Community will join the Ship It Zero coalition in calling on Target to end its contributions to the nation’s port pollution crisis and transition to zero emissions ocean cargo ships by 2030 at a press conference in MN.
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For Some, Shipping Bottleneck Presages a Polluted Holiday Season
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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Report Reveals Big Retailers Contribute to Pollution and Port Congestion
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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Supply chain chaos is causing the biggest increase in ship emissions in more than a decade
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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The supply chain crisis is wreaking havoc on the environment as carbon emissions from ships and seaports reach the highest rate since 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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Focus on shippers and ocean carriers as US retail sales rise
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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Amazon accused of playing ‘outsized’ role in supply chain chaos
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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Shipping industry is pressured to cut pollution caused by merchant fleet
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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Online Shopping Is Turning the High Seas Into a Super-Polluting Highway
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 and the world’s biggest retailers are making port congestion and pollution worse, new report finds
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, Target fueling port pollution, harming communities: Report
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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Groundbreaking new research uncovers close ties between polluting cargo carriers, major U.S. retailers
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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Why Do Walmart, Amazon, Target and IKEA Have Such High Shipping Emissions?
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 and Target play ‘outsized’ role in port congestion and pollution, report finds
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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Top retailers and carriers urged to move faster to cut shipping emissions
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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Cyber Monday Report Reveals Climate-Wrecking Supply Chain of US Retail Giants
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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Green groups push liner operators on zero-emission shipping
November 29, 2021 — Retailers are starting to heed the call, Stand.earth and Pacific Environment say.
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Amazon and Target play an ‘outsized role’ in California port congestion compared to competitors Ikea and Walmart, new study says
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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