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? Charting a course to curb maritime emissions

Climate Tech VC

1, 2020 rules adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) came into effect that substantially decreased the amount of sulfur allowed in maritime fuels with the goal of cutting sulfur oxide emissions from ships by 77%. Regulatory rewind: On Jan.1, permanence, leakage, additionality, etc. ).

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Climate change is creating security threats around the world - and militaries are responding

Business Green

A range of climate scenarios have been forecast - but common to all is increased frequency and scale of extreme weather events, more droughts and floods, melting of ice caps and permafrost, rise in sea levels, and oceanic acidification and deoxygenation. Arctic militarisation.