Tag: climate change

BIMCO, FONASBA, IAPH, IFSMA, InterManager, INTERTANKO, IPTA and IUMI have published a climate change glossary to clarify and harmonise definitions and terminology to ensure that discussions around climate change and potential solutions for the shipping industry are based on a mutual understanding of what the commonly used terms mean.

The contradictory reputation of the oil and gas industry is hardly a new topic, but an expected boom in the rise of oil and gas projects has recently created concerns about the future of decarbonization for the world to meet its ambitious climate targets.

Global discussions have been increasingly emphasizing on the need for countries and businesses to become “carbon neutral”, as a key pathway to limit global warming in line with the Paris Agreement. But what does this “carbon neutral” mean exactly? And how can it help preserve the world as we know it for the generations to come, considering that we have lost 50% of all marine life over the last 70 years?

The most recent IPCC report on climate change takes a look on the near and long term risks that the continuous deterioration of the planet's climate could cause.

A new generation leadership with more gender equality and competence on the field of ESG will make the difference, argues Mr Bjørn Kjærand Haugland, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Skift Business Climate Leaders.

According to the latest Working Group III report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, limiting global warming to 1.5°C is beyond reach.

A new report, authored by RTI International for Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), reveals that the global shipping and port industry is susceptible to billions of dollars in infrastructure damage and trade disruption from climate change impacts.

Environmental Defense Fund publishes its new report revealing that the global shipping and port industry is vulnerable to billions of dollars in infrastructure damage and trade disruption from climate change impacts.

Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks. People and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.

According to an infographic published by the Clean Arctic Alliance, the Arctic is warming 3 times faster than the rest of our planet.