Amazon’s Carbon Emissions Rose in 2021 Fueled by Pandemic Shopping

Amazon . com Inc.’s carbon emissions rose 18% in 2021, underscoring the challenge the e-commerce giant faces as it aims to shrink its environmental footprint while expanding its business.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazons-carbon-emissions-rose-in-2021-fueled-by-pandemic-shopping-11659362400

Embodied Carbon of Building Materials

The buildings where we live, work have a profound effect on our health. Embodied carbon of building materials includes the emissions due to energy consumption for resource extraction and material manufacture as well as the carbon emissions from transportation for building materials. 

Emission = Quantity of building material (e.g. m3) x carbon emission factor (kg CO2-e/m3)

Emission =  Weight of building material (e.g. kg) x the distance of transportation for material (km) x the carbon emission factor for transport means (kg CO2-e/tonne∙km)

Shippers Contribute to Carbon Neutrality in MSC South Pole Partnership

Shippers have a new way to participate in the global drive to achieve carbon neutrality while working to directly lower the carbon footprint of their supply chains and cargo shipments.

MSC announced in an email to customers that it is rolling out a global program in partnership with South Pole, a company that works businesses and governments to aid in the development of emission reduction and renewable energy projects tailored to the organization’s needs. Under development since 2019, and previously offered in select countries, MSC said the program is now being extended worldwide throughout 2020.

Source: https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/shippers-contribute-to-carbon-neutrality-in-msc-south-pole-partnership

Useful tool: OOCL Carbon Calculator

OOCL Carbon Calculator The OOCL Carbon Calculator demonstrates OOCL’s commitment to environmental care and will help our customers achieve the lowest possible carbon footprint in their end-to-end supply chain. Simple and easy to use, with just a few clicks, you can measure your carbon emissions for each shipment you make with OOCL, any time, anywhere.

Origin Destination Cargo Volume      TON or    TEU Add Shipment

Source: https://www.oocl.com/eng/aboutoocl/Environmentalcare/ooclcarboncalculator/Pages/default.aspx

Carbon footprint calculator for Sea Freight all-in-one sustainability solution of carbon emission management on no. of container (TEU) and Dry/Refeer data.

Ideo Concepts Carbon footprint calculator for Sea Freight is part of all-in-one sustainability solution of carbon emission management / tracking system for cargo forwarder/shipper and any business based on no. of container (TEU) and Dry/Refeer data.

With yearly updated Factor for CO2 Emission will be counted based on goverment/industry factor data (yearly updated)

Our solution also included Air Freight / Road Freight / Power / Electricity Consumption and Weighted/Volumetric Waste / Fuel emission reported on ESG Dashboard (charts and text) reporting system.

If you would like to know more, we are happy to share with you. For advice, please contact: http://www.pro-quali.com/contact-us/

Sony, Microsoft, Stadia, and others join forces with United Nations to announce new climate change commitments

A more eco-friendly PS5.  The PS5 to include a low power suspend mode to help reduce carbon emissions, Sony announces as part of new partnership with United Nations

Today, the United Nations has announced it is partnering with 21 companies in the video game industry to "harness the power of their platforms to take action in response to the climate crisis", as part of its new Playing for the Planet initiative.

The likes of Sony, Microsoft, Google Stadia, Ubisoft, and more have all pledged to the programme, announcing various initiatives to reduce their own corporate carbon footprint while simultaneously promoting awareness about the climate crisis through their medium.

Sony's President and CEO Jim Ryan, for example, has announced that the upcoming PS5, the next generation PlayStation console, will feature a "low power suspend mode" which could potentially save huge amounts of energy expenditure for its users around the world.

Microsoft is continuing to reach its aims of producing carbon neutral Xbox consoles, and plans to reduce its supply chain emissions by 20% in 2030, while Google Stadia is releasing a Sustainable Game Development Guide to help its partnered studios create games through greener processes.

Full story here: https://www.gamesradar.com/sony-microsoft-stadia-and-others-join-forces-with-united-nations-to-announce-new-climate-change-commitments-including-a-more-eco-friendly-ps5/

Huge carbon monoxide plume from Amazon rainforest fires

The devastating effect of the Amazon forest fires on our planet have been revealed in a NASA time series.

The images, created using data from NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard the Aqua satellite, show a giant carbon monoxide plume gathering over Brazil.

Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/huge-carbon-monoxide-plume-amazon-19007167