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Maritime shipping could triple by 2050. How will the industry decarbonize?

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But maritime trade volumes are projected to triple by 2050. Ships carry around 90 percent of goods transported globally, and the shipping sector accounts for about 3 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions today.

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Survey will shape 2050 Water Innovation Strategy

Envirotec Magazine

The UK water sector should give more focus to the themes of delivering resilient infrastructure systems and protecting and enhancing natural systems, according to a survey about the UK 2050 Water Innovation Strategy. Spring, the water innovation centre of excellence, launched the sector-wide survey in July 2023.

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Maritime shipping projected to triple by 2050. How will the industry decarbonize?

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But maritime trade volumes are projected to triple by 2050. Ships carry around 90 percent of goods transported globally, and the shipping sector accounts for about 3 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions today.

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Copper industry trade association pledges to reach net zero by 2050

Envirotec Magazine

Trade group with oversight on “the cornerstone material for a net-zero future ” sets out “ambitious plans” to reach net zero in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2050, and significantly cut Scope 3 emissions.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers.

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Technology not growing fast enough to decarbonize steel and cement industries by 2050

Envirotec Magazine

However, Watari and his colleagues found that this number was woefully off; in reality, the amount was only 1 million metric tons, which questions the 2000 million metric tons expected by the IEA to be captured and stored by 2050. “We are not saying that the existing scenarios are physically or economically unrealistic.

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Inside Hewlett Foundation’s plan to electrify all road transportation by 2050

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Inside Hewlett Foundation’s plan to electrify all road transportation by 2050. The goal: eliminate the use of the combustion engine in personal vehicles and the trucking industry by 2050. The Hewlett Foundation’s plan to electrify all road transportation by 2050 focuses on four major regions: India; China; the U.S.; and Europe.