Once the exception and now the rule, disruptions are a way of life in the global supply chain. But experts told a recent podcast that shippers can still make hay even as they take steps to find their way.
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Sulfur pollution addressed by IMO 2020 created a health risk, but that pollution had a cooling effect, which has now been reduced.
Railroads are making targeted investments, developing innovative technologies and evolving operations to combat climate change.
Freight railroads and climate change
In a Q&A, supply chain industry executives provide their thoughts on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed climate disclosure rules that could put retailer pressure on fleets to share emissions data.
Thanks to a federal grant, the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University will be working with four other colleges to develop climate-resiliency strategies and tools for U.S. freight and passenger railroads.
The Inflation Reduction Act has been signed into law. What do its climate measures mean for supply chains?
Vaclav Smil, author of “How the World Really Works,” joins FreightWaves’ Supply Chain Meets FinTech event to talk about supply chain frictions.
Convoy and FreightWaves experts discuss the effects that extreme weather conditions such as flash flooding have on truckers.
The Canadian government says it will fund infrastructure projects in Saskatchewan and Ontario, as well as research into how the railways can respond to climate-induced events.
While companies generally support the Securities and Exchange Commission’s goals of providing climate data to investors, they have apprehension about the burden the rules could place on small carriers.
AskWaves explains carbon insets, how they may benefit companies and what limits they may have.
The International Maritime Organization and a California congressman look for strategies to lower emissions on World Ocean Day.
Green hydrogen producer Plug Power is building a plant at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges in Belgium to help decarbonize the region’s logistics.
Share of adults who say it is important to them that their country shifts away from fossil fuels
Former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman explains in an Earth Day interview how the freight industry can embrace a more environmentally friendly future.
Environmental Defense Fund tells ports, shippers to ‘act now or pay later’ for climate change
Rising sea levels and increasingly extreme weather are expected to cost ports and shippers billions of dollars annually.
According to the most recent U.N. climate change report, the impacts of global warming are becoming more widespread and severe across the world.
