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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

Press Release

Ahead of the Global Fossil Gas Bunkering Summit, groups pan the use of fossil fuels

May 3, 2022 — Ship It Zero campaigns says the time to get off of dirty fossil fuels starts now

Climate crisis

Fuels

Pollution

News|Electrek

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.

Maersk

Maritime shipping industry

Pollution

Insight

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.

Maritime shipping industry

Pollution

Port congestion

News|CalMatters

New study: California’s trailblazing diesel rules save lives

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.”

Diesel

Pollution

Zero emissions

News|Electroniknet

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.

Maritime shipping industry

Pollution

Zero carbon

News|Reuters

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.

Maersk

Maritime shipping industry

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Press Release

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.

Fuels

Maritime shipping industry

Pollution

News|Quartz

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.

Maersk

Maritime shipping industry

Pollution

News|Bunkerspot

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.

Maersk

Maritime shipping industry

Pollution

News|Bunkerspot

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

Maritime shipping industry

Pollution

Port pollution

News|The Guardian

‘Warehouses in their backyards’: when Amazon expands, these communities pay the price

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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Asthma

Pollution

News|FreightWaves

New coalition hopes to create demand drivers for sustainable solutions

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.

Biden

COP26

First Movers Coalition

News|NBC News

As 100 ships idle offshore, California communities see rise in toxic pollutants

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.

Fuels

Maritime shipping industry

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