Efforts by governments in COVID-related economic packages are failing to reach the levels of green spending seen following the 2008 financial crisis, with only 12% of spending going towards low-carbon projects,...
Today in the search for more sustainable ways of shipping, there are 5 companies, who are sailing ships the traditional way and hauling cargo. While they are the oddballs...
Solomon Islands will prosecute the captain of bulk carrier, MV Quebec, for discharging oil in a remote and pristine part of the country, Temotu Province. Islanders spotted dead fish on their coastline...
Until last week, the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat consisted of 18 members and covered a vast, resource rich, highly strategic zone on the front line between Asia and the...
Across the world, millions of lives could be saved if countries raise ambitions on cutting emissions. The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change looked at the health impact of boosting national...
Agnes Kalibata, special envoy to the UN Secretary General for the Food Systems Summit 2021, said, “Food systems have contracted, because of Covid-19. And food has become more expensive and,...
There are now over 100,000 vessels above 100GT registered, as per Clarksons Research findings, averaging 21,355 DWT and 21.7 years old. This fleet is currently valued at US$976bn. This further emphasizes...
The UK's Windship Technology unveiled what it claims can become the Tesla of the seas while announcing an investment partnership with class society, DNV GL. The design – developed/tested in...
The ANZ bank has pulled out of funding the Port of Newcastle in what is being interpreted as a significant rebuke of the coal industry and its exposure to...
Surangel Whipps Jr., President of Palau, writes, "Micronesia had no choice to but to abandon the Pacific Islands Forum after being ‘thoroughly and publicly disregarded", For two years, Micronesian leaders prepared...
A new two-year e-fuel research project aims at integrating hydrogen production through high-temperature electrolysis using a solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) with carbon dioxide sequestration and Fischer-Tropsch fuel synthesis. Fischer-Tropsch synthesis...
Rolls-Royce has begun testing 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in the new Pearl 700 business jet engine in Dahlewitz, Germany, where the Rolls-Royce BR700 family of turbofan engines is manufactured,...
