Tag: net-zero emissions
Amazon ships goods on Maersk’s first-ever zero-emissions container vessel
The "maiden voyage" was part of a 2023-2024 agreement Amazon finalized with Maersk to transport 20,000 40-foot equivalent containers using methanol through Maersk’s “ECO Delivery” ocean product offering.
Governments of California and Japan announce new collaboration to clean up...
The U.S.-Japan Competitiveness and Resilience Partnership will make “common and concrete efforts to decarbonize operations.”
Finland passes new Climate Change Act in first legally-binding climate negativity...
“High income countries have to take a progressive and active role when it comes to tackling climate change.”
NY leaders commit to nation’s first fully zero-emission school bus fleet
"These pollution-free buses will give kids the safe ride to school that they deserve."
UN group wants to make sure corporate net-zero pledges aren’t just...
"But we also urgently need every business, investor, city, state and region to walk the talk on their net-zero promises.”
At COP26, Indigenous, black, and brown activists offer radical solutions for...
While elites fixate on technological fixes such as “net zero” emissions, communities of color fear it will disproportionately impact them and instead demand a just phasing out of oil and gas—and a seat at the table.
Old planes to be transformed into 100-passenger electric planes by 2026,...
Wright Electric will convert existing BAe 146 planes, first made by British aerospace company BAE Systems in the 1980s, into electric planes.
Report examines ‘Net Zero’ climate strategies, finds corporate plans lacking in...
A “Net Zero” carbon emissions approach, the keystone of many government and corporate strategies on climate change, is a pollute now, pay later strategy, a new report argues.
Wells Fargo announces commitment to join Net-Zero Banking Alliance and reach...
"Achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 means stopping financing for the expansion of fossil fuels now."
Seven in ten major UK pension funds yet to make ‘robust’...
They are calling on the government to “catalyze” change by setting mandatory science-based net zero targets.
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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.