Tag: ocean shipping
UN Shipping Deal Lives to Fight Another Day, as US Fails to Derail Negotiations
Negotiations on Net-Zero Framework postponed until the autumn, but appetite for green measures remains. Negotiations at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have ended with the Net Zero Framework (NZF) intact, despite a week of pressure and delay tactics from the United States. While the US and its allies successfully pushed … [continued]
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Fast Hydrofoils, Floating Logs, & Canada’s Ferry Electrification Challenge
Vancouver’s recent support for an electric passenger hydrofoil to Bowen Island and Gibsons is an appealing hook because it compresses three different Canadian transportation stories into one image. It promises decarbonization, speed, and coastal reconnection in a single sleek vessel. It also invites a harder question. Is the future of … [continued]
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The Clean Energy Future Hawaiʻi Can Actually Build: New TFIE Strategy White Paper
The newly published white paper began with a question that persisted because of how clearly island systems expose the realities of energy. Can Hawaiʻi, an isolated archipelago with no continental grid behind it and a long dependence on imported fuels, build an energy system that is cleaner, more resilient, more … [continued]
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Two Options for the Strait of Hormuz in a Decarbonized World
The most useful way to think about the Strait of Hormuz in a decarbonized future is not as an oil story that fades away as the energy transition advances. It is a systems story about where risk sits in the architecture of the economy. In the fossil era, Hormuz matters … [continued]
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Island Ports Enable Long-Distance Electric Shipping
International shipping contributes to CO2, NO2, and SO2 emissions. Pollution from Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO), colloquially termed bunker fuel, has long been considered a problem. Heavy Fuel Oil has high sulfur content, and the global shipping industry produces 12% and 13% respectively of global SO2 and NO2 emissions, contributing a … [continued]
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