GHGs rose at alarming rate: NOAA

Record temperatures, devastating floods and superstorms are causing death and destruction across the planet but humans are failing to cut greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) fueling the climate emergency, new US data shows. Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide – the greenhouse gases emitted by human activity that are the most significant

IMO calls for 2040 emission reduction target

Several member states contend that by setting an intermediate emission reduction target for 2040, the IMO will ensure that a more ambitious 2050 target is achievable, according to International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA). The International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) 14th Intersessional Working Group on Greenhouse Gases (ISWG GHG 14) meeting was held recently. Member states worked

Medtronic joins SBTi to become carbon neutral

Medtronic is joining 4,600+ organizations worldwide that are leading the challenge to become carbon neutral by setting ambitious emissions reduction targets grounded in climate science through the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The SBTi is a partnership between CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute (WRI), and the World Wildlife Fund for Nature

Signature Aviation achieves carbon neutrality

Signature Aviation has announced that it has achieved carbon neutrality for 2022 across its global network of more than 200 FBO locations. Signature’s investment in carbon neutrality covers greenhouse gas emissions from all of its ground equipment, vehicles, facilities, electrical and natural gas heating and buildings (known as Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions). It

South Korea to use technology to achieve Netzero goals

South Korea has outlined its strategy to achieve carbon neutrality in the industrial sector by focusing on technology solutions, with an aim to cut 120mn tonnes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. Representative firms from the four major carbon-emitting industries — chemicals, steel, cement , and semiconductor/displays — formed a consortium as part of

ONE carries out fourth biofuel trial

Ocean Network Express (ONE) has carried out its fourth biofuel trial onboard MOL ENDOWMENT. The trial was conducted as part of the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation’s (GCMD) pilot project to establish a quality, quantity and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) abatement assurance framework for drop-in biofuels. The M/V MOL ENDOWMENT was refuelled with 992 metric

Lenovo to become NetZero by 2050

Lenovo announced its goal to reach netzero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, validated and approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a partnership between the UN Global Compact, CDP and World Wide Fund for Nature – making it the first PC and smartphone maker and one of only 139 companies in the world

Blueprint to decarbonise transportation released in the US

The Biden administration released the US National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization. Developed by the departments of Energy, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and the Environmental Protection Agency, the blueprint provides a strategy for cutting all greenhouse emissions from the transportation sector by 2050. In the area of maritime transportation, the report notes that, because of

Brazil sets caps on GHG emissions

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro approved the resolution of the National Energy Policy Council (CNPE) defining the annual mandatory targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the commercialization of fuels over the next ten years, under the National Policy for Biofuels (Renovabio), Agencia Brasil reported Tuesday after the measure was published in the Diário Oficial da

MEPC urges to set ambitious emission reduction target by 2030

The International Maritime Organization should adopt a more ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction target by 2030. For the first time since May 2019, IMO member states meet in the agency’s London headquarters to attend the 79th session of the agency’s Marine Environment Protection Committee. The session will run until Friday. IMO is currently in the