Tag: Zero carbon
Resolution passed urging maritime importers to call at San Pedro Port Complex on zero-carbon ships
April 21, 2023
— The Long Beach City Council has passed a Ship It Zero Resolution, which calls on top maritime importers to adopt emissions-reducing technologies and make port calls to the San Pedro Port Complex on zero-carbon ships by 2030.
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LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL CALLS FOR IMPORTERS TO ‘TAKE STEPS TOWARDS MAKING PORT CALLS AT THE SAN PEDRO PORT COMPLEX ON ‘ZERO-CARBON’ SHIPS BY 2030’
April 19, 2023
— The Long Beach City Council yesterday (18 April) unanimously approved a resolution ‘calling on top maritime importers to Long Beach to adopt existing emissions-reducing technologies and take steps towards making port calls to the San Pedro Port Complex on zero-carbon ships by 2030’. The Council’s move has been welcomed by local climate action NGOs and supporters of the ‘Ship It Zero’ coalition.
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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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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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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.
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Coalition For A Safe Environment: Availability of Zero Emissions Cargo Ships
January 28, 2022
— Coalition for a Safe Environment’s Jesse Marquez reminds us that several zero-emissions cargo ships are already on the market now, in 2022.
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The world’s first all-electric container ship
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 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.
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Maersk to tackle air pollution at ports with ship-charging buoys
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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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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Maersk could push the entire shipping industry to move up its climate goals
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 Calls Maersk’s 2040 Pledge a ‘Necessary Step’ Towards Zero Emissions Cargo Shipping
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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Maersk Accelerates Ocean Shipping Climate Ambitions by Decade Aims to Halve Climate Emissions by 2030 and Achieve Net Zero Emissions by 2040
January 12, 2022
— Major shipping corporation Maersk has announced plans to achieve net zero climate emissions in its business by 2040, a decade earlier than the company’s initial climate commitment made just four years ago.
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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
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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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Ship It Zero aims to set sail on low-carbon cargo
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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