Shell supplies first sustainable aviation fuel to Singapore customers

 Shell has become the first supplier of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in Singapore, and plans to start blending the fuel at its plant in the aviation hub, the company said on Thursday during an event at the Singapore Airshow.

Aviation, which accounts for 3% of the world's carbon emissions, is considered one of the toughest sectors to tackle due to a lack of alternative technologies to jet fueled-engines.

Full detail here https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/shell-supplies-first-sustainable-aviation-fuel-singapore-customers-2022-02-17/

Create a PayPal Donate / Payment Button in Wordpress

Here we will guide you how to create a PayPal Donate / Payment Button and put in Wordpress

Step 1: Open PayPal Donate button page

Open the PayPal Donate Button page. Visit paypal.com/donate/buttons.

Sign up or log in to your PayPal Business or Premier account. You can also create a Donate button with a personal account, however, features will be limited.

Select Put a button on your wordpress website.

Step 2: Choose button style

Customize how your button looks on your site and see a preview of your choices in the Button Preview pane.

Choose your country.

Choose your language.

If you select to use the PayPal button style, choose to use either the large or small size and whether to show accepted card logos.

If you select to use your own image, upload a button image. The image file must be .jpg, .png, .gif, or .bmp.

Select Continue.

Step 3: Set up donation page

Customize your donation page by adding your organization’s logo and a cover image. Also choose how you want your donation page to be displayed.

Your organization's name is pre-filled based on your login information.

Upload your organization’s logo and a cover image. The image file must be .jpg, .png, .gif or .bmp.

Optionally, enter your organization's purpose.

Select between a full page or pop-up donation experience.

Select Continue.

Step 4: Customize donation details

Set the currency, donation amounts, programs the donation can benefit, and other options for your donors.

Select the currency in which you want to receive donations.

Choose whether donors can give any amount, an exact amount, or specific preset amounts. If you select the last option, enter amounts for each of the fields. Donors will also have the option to put in their own custom amount.

Choose whether to let donors make recurring monthly donations.

Choose whether to give donors the option to increase their donation to help offset the cost of fees.

Choose whether to let donors select specific programs for their donation. If yes, list one to ten program names.

Select Continue.

Step 5: Use your Donate button

After creation, use your Donate button in any of these ways:

Insert the HTML code into your Wordpress site. The Donate button will take donors to your Wordpress donation page.

Use the shareable URL in social media, emails, and other notifications.

Print a QR code to use on physical materials or at events.

Five ways in which Beijing 2022 will become carbon neutral

 In 2018, the total GHG baseline emissions covering the whole process of the Beijing 2022 Games were calculated at 1.637 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, which were later revised in June 2021 to 1.306 million t-CO2e. As of June 2021, the 2016-2021 GHG emissions of the Beijing 2022 Games were calculated to be 489,000 t-CO2e.

Below are five ways in which Beijing 2022 organisers plan to achieve carbon neutrality.

1. Low-carbon venues

The first city in the world to host both a Summer and Winter Olympic Games, Beijing has been able to reuse many of its iconic venues, retrofitting them to reduce its footprint and maximise visibility of carbon-reducing solutions.

Five of the seven venues in the Beijing 2022 competition zone will be legacy venues from Beijing 2008, including the iconic “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium – which will host the Opening and Closing Ceremonies – and the Water Cube, which has been transformed from the Beijing 2008 swimming venue to the Ice Cube, to host the curling competitions.

All venues are expected to be powered by renewable energy while embracing new construction standards, from water and energy efficiency to building insulation and cooling technologies.

All newly-built venues have been certified with the highest national sustainability standards.

2. A push for renewables

For the first time in Olympic history, 100 per cent of the conventional electricity demand of all venues will be supplied by renewable energy. Accelerated by the Games, a new renewable power grid transfers wind and solar energy from Zhangjiakou to Beijing, supplying about 10 per cent of the city’s electricity consumption, as well as powering the Games.

3. Low-carbon transport

Fuel efficient and clean-energy vehicles will account for 100 per cent of all passenger cars and 85 per cent of all vehicles, including vehicles provided by Worldwide Olympic Partner Toyota. Transport within the Beijing Zone will mainly include electric and natural-gas-powered vehicles. In the Yanqing Zone and the Zhangjiakou Zone, hydrogen-fuelled vehicles will be deployed.

Opened as part of the preparations for the Games, a high-speed train connecting the three competition zones of Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou reduces travel time for the 174-kilometre journey from three hours to less than 60 minutes. 

4. Low-carbon ice cooling

Natural CO2 refrigeration systems will be used at four Beijing 2022 ice venues – the first time this low-climate-impact technology will be used in China and at the Olympic Winter Games.

The use of this technology reduces carbon emissions from the cooling process to nearly zero, cutting heat waste and energy consumption.

It is replacing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), traditionally used to cool ice rinks and proven to damage the Earth’s ozone layer and contribute to global warming.

5. Compensating through afforestation

Carbon sinks generated by afforestation projects in Beijing and Zhangjiakou will compensate emissions from the Games. Beijing and Zhangjiakou authorities have planted 47,333 and 33,000 hectares of forest and green areas respectively. After being verified and certified by a third-party certification body, approximately 530,000 and 570,000 tonnes of forestry carbon sequestration credits have been provided to Beijing 2022 to compensate its residual carbon emissions.

In response to the growing climate crisis, the IOC is constantly increasing its ambition to address it.

While all upcoming Games editions are required to be carbon-neutral, from 2030 onwards, the IOC will go a step further, obliging all Games to be “climate positive”. This means that organisers will be required to reduce direct and indirect emissions of the Games, compensate more than the remaining ones, and create lasting zero-carbon solutions for the Games and beyond.

Paris 2024 has committed to achieving this goal already in 2024.

Tokyo 2020 went beyond carbon neutrality, by reducing its carbon footprint and compensating more than its remaining emissions.

The IOC itself will halve its own footprint by 2030 and create an Olympic Forest to become climate positive in 2024.

Source: https://olympics.com/ioc/news/five-ways-in-which-beijing-2022-will-become-carbon-neutral