Chemicals & Energy

World Shipping Industry Agrees to Reduce Carbon Emissions 50 Percent by 2050

April 17, 2018

Members of the UN International Maritime Organisation last week struck a deal to halve carbon dioxide emissions from shipping by 2050 in a deal that will force the industry to redesign fleets.

LNG Is Comparable to Other Fossil Fuels, New Report Says

April 12, 2018

Maritime Executive

There is no widely available fuel, including LNG, to manage climate change and local pollutants in tandem, according to a recent study by researchers at The University of Manchester.

Q&A: FedEx Finds Unexpected Benefits From New Fuel Technologies

April 11, 2018

Environmental Leader

Each business day, FedEx serves over 220 countries and territories with more than 600 aircraft as well as more than 190,000 on-road and off-road vehicles, which includes around 132,000 company-owned vehicles. The shipping company, which has $60 billion-plus in revenue, operates on an immense scale.

Shell Foresaw Climate Dangers in 1988 and Understood Big Oil’s Big Role

April 9, 2018

The Washington Post

A Dutch journalist has uncovered Royal Dutch Shell documents as old as 1988 that showed the oil company understood the gravity of climate change, the company’s large contribution to it and how hard it would be to stop it.

Trump Trade War Threatens U.S. Chemical Investment Renaissance

April 6, 2018

Bloomberg

A brewing trade war with China threatens to derail the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. manufacturing economy as chemical companies rethink spending almost $100bn on new factories.

Israeli Firm Says It Can Turn Garbage Into Bio-Based Plastic

April 3, 2018

The Washington Post

Hawks, vultures and storks circle overhead as Christopher Sveen points at the heap of refuse rotting in the desert heat in Kibbutz Zeelim, Israel. "This is the mine of the future," he beams.

It's Possible to Decarbonize Shipping by 2035, Report Says

April 2, 2018

Maritime Executive

Deployment of all currently known technologies could make it possible to almost completely decarbonize maritime shipping by 2035, according to a new report published by the International Transport Forum at the OECD.

McDonald's Is the Latest Restaurant to Ban Plastic Straws

April 2, 2018

Fortune

McDonald’s is jumping on the plastic ban train.

Hydrogen-Powered Transport Key to Climate Targets, Says Shell

March 29, 2018

The Guardian

Planes and trucks powered by hydrogen will be a crucial part of efforts to cut carbon emissions to safe levels, according to oil giant Shell.

Chinese Control of Cobalt Supply Is Risk for Car Industry, Glencore Says

March 28, 2018

Reuters

The automotive industry is waking up too late to the fact that China will hold most of the world’s supply of cobalt, a key metal for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, Glencore Chief Executive Ivan Glasenberg says.

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