Aura advances towards NetZero emission uranium production at Tiris

Aim-listed Aura Energy continues to advance towards net-zero emission uranium production at the Tiris uranium project, in Mauritania, with an initial study of Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions undertaken by consulting group Wood Group now complete, clearly defining a net-zero emission pathway for the project. Total baseline GHG emissions from the Tiris

Charting global shipping’s path to zero carbon

A knowledge partnership between the Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping and McKinsey explores what it will take for the maritime industry to decarbonize. Persistent logjams in the global supply chain have brought the shipping industry under intense scrutiny in recent months. Although much of the focus has been on devising solutions to

De-risking 2030 will help shipowners in 2050

Waiting until 2028, and then following the lead of others, is a very high-risk decarbonisation strategy. No single fuel and energy conversion technology is going to satisfy the requirements of every shipowner, so each must develop their own decarbonisation strategy and use 2030 targets to evaluate the solutions that could then take them through to

Indian refinery to produce bioethanol from bamboo

Sulzer technology is helping to convert bamboo into bioethanol in a pioneering Indian refinery. India’s national objective of achieving self-sufficiency in energy and reducing its fossil fuel footprint is being supported by Sulzer’s expertise in pump manufacturing and refinery processes. The country’s first biorefinery, Assam Bio Refinery, built by Chempolis technology, is a new joint

Senate Finance OKs mining mutual fund, bank fossil fuel boycott bills

Senate Finance sent President Craig Blair’s mining mutual insurance company bill to the Senate floor, along with the bill dealing with bank boycotts of fossil fuel companies. SB 1 is the mining mutual bill. It explains that the state funds reclamation at abandoned mines through a combination of bond proceeds and money from the Special

Getting to Zero Coalition calls for a CO2 price of $200 per tonne

The Getting to Zero Coalition, a group of leading maritime companies and environmental NGOs dedicated to reducing carbon emissions from shipping, has released a new report calling for carbon pricing of about $200 per tonne of CO2. To make green future fuels more cost-competitive with conventional HFO and VLSFO, the coalition says that a combination

Maersk tankers to launch decarbonisation hub

Maersk Tankers has announced it is to establish a knowledge hub focusing on decarbonisation. The hub will seek to gather intelligence and create solutions to help shipowners and cargo customers cut emissions, the company said. Maersk Tankers says the decarbonisation hub will bring experts, shipowners, cargo customers and other stakeholders together to develop a suite

Adani coal poised for export as insurance giants pledge cleaner future

According to the Adani Group, at the end of December, the first coal shipment from the central Queensland Carmichael Mine was ready to leave its Australian export terminal despite years of environmental campaigning and the refusal by major insurers to offer coverage for the project. However, three weeks later, the coal’s exact status is not

Report outlines policy measures to make zero-emission shipping commercially viable

A new report launched by the Getting to Zero Coalition on 18 January has outlined policy measures that could help ‘close the competitiveness gap between fossil fuels and zero-emission alternatives in shipping as well as enable an equitable transition’. Entitled Closing the Gap, the report has been prepared for the Coalition by UMAS. Explaining the

France LNG shipping SAS and EDF LNG shipping ink long-term charter contract

NYK affiliated company France LNG Shipping SAS has signed a long-term charter contract for a new LNG carrier with EDF LNG Shipping SAS. Scheduled for delivery in 2025 from Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries Co., the newly built LNG carrier will be feature WinGD-manufactured, dual-fuel slow-speed diesel engines. The carrier will also feature an Air Liquide-manufactured