8kun Midnight Riders Posts (1)
#110148 at 2021-12-08 06:56:40 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight RIders #553: Your Haxxors are SHIT Edition
Crowley Commits to Net-Zero GHG Emissions By 2050
Mike Schuler
December 7, 2021
U.S.-based shipping company Crowley has committed to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across by 2050 across its entire business. To track progress and promote visibility into its emissions reductions, Crowley will be linking up with tech giant Salesforce to develop a maritime-specific GHG monitoring and modeling platform.
In order to reach its target, Crowley estimates that it will need to reduce overall emissions by 4.2 million metric tons of greenhouse gases per year, or the equivalent of removing more than 900,000 cars from the road every year. The company says the commitment is "aligned with the latest climate science to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius."
"Crowley is on a mission to become the most sustainable and innovative maritime and logistics company in the Americas," said Tom Crowley, chairman and CEO. "Working together with our cusTomers, suppliers, policymakers and others across our value chain, we can meet the climate crisis head on."
As part of its goal, Crowley says it's creating partnerships across the industry with government and non-governmental organizations to collaboratively achieve decarbonization and climate action, including the Blue Sky Maritime Coalition, which is focused on the North American maritime value chain, and the World Shipping Council focusing on the global container shipping industry.
"Crowley's value chain accounts for over 80% of our emissions across the enterprise. Collaboration with cusTomers and partners is key to our mutual success reaching net-zero emissions using science-based standards," said Alisa Praskovich, vice president of sustainability. "By creating mutual accountability, we will spur innovation through the open sharing of ideas."
The company says reducing GHG emissions is "a mission critical issue to Crowley's stakeholders," based on results from a recent materiality assessment and survey. "With a net zero commitment across all three scopes, the company will operationalize its emissions reduction," the company said.
"First and foremost, achieving net-zero emissions is the right thing to do for our planet and deeply aligns with Crowley's purpose. It is our responsibility as a leader to anticipate evolving stakeholder and cusTomer expectations," said Ray Fitzgerald, chief operating officer.
To promote visibility into its total emissions footprint, Crowley is engaging with Salesforce to co-develop a greenhouse gas emissions monitoring and modeling platform that will provide benchmarking, transparency and cusTomized disclosures.
"We're proud to be supporting Crowley, our first-to-market cusTomer in the maritime industry, in their sustainability journey to track and reduce their carbon footprint with Salesforce Sustainability Cloud," said Ari Alexander, GM of Salesforce Sustainability Cloud. "With Sustainability Cloud, Crowley can now have a 360 view of its carbon footprint, with auTomated dashboards that provide real-time, actionable insights so they can take meaningful climate action across their supply chain."
Other activities to date include introducing an all-electric tugboat and development of alternative energy vessels and offshore wind services. Crowley has formed a New Energy division that will provide offshore wind services in the U.S. and is developing a program that will allow cusTomers to select more sustainable fuels.
In the coming months, Crowley anticipates submitting its long-and short-term emission reduction goals to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) and is set to release an enterprise-wide sustainability roadmap and complete its inaugural sustainability report in 2022.
[I checked out that "science based" target initiative link in the article. Website addy is:
https://sciencebasedtargets.org/
I'm just shakin muh head.]
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (2)
#20359492 at 2024-02-05 08:07:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition
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Chinese court sentences Australian Yang Hengjun to death with two-year good behaviour reprieve
Tom Crowley and Stephen Dziedzic - 5 February 2024
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Australian Yang Hengjun has been sentenced to death by a Chinese court, Foreign Minister Penny Wong has confirmed.
It is a suspended sentence that can be converted to a life sentence after two years subject to good behaviour.
The Australian citizen, writer and democracy activist has been imprisoned in China since 2019 on charges of spying, which he has always denied.
Senator Wong has called the court's decision "harrowing" and "appalling".
The Australian government has petitioned for his release, but officials had not been able to attend Dr Yang's closed trial, which began in 2021.
"We have consistently called for basic standards of justice, procedural fairness and humane treatment for Dr Yang, in accordance with international norms and China's legal obligations," Senator Wong said.
"All Australians want to see Dr Yang reunited with his family. We will not relent in our advocacy."
Wang Wenbin, a spokesperson for for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the trial had been held "in strict accordance with the law" and claimed it had upheld Dr Yang's "procedural rights" and Australia's "consular rights".
Dr Yang was detained for two years before he was charged, and Australian officials have reported difficulties with consular access, but Mr Wang said the court had allowed Australian diplomats to "sit in on the sentencing".
Dr Yang's lawyers have until February 15th to decide whether to appeal. Any appeal process would delay the onset of the two-year window for good behaviour.
China's ambassador to Australia, Xiao Qian, was summoned to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) this afternoon for an explanation.
The meeting with DFAT secretary Jan Adams lasted 20 minutes. The ambassador ignored questions from the media as he departed.
Family 'devastated'
In a statement, a supporter of Dr Yang said his family was "shocked and devastated by this news, which comes at the extreme end of worst expectations. They will take time to process".
There have been ongoing concerns about Dr Yang's health. The 58-year-old has a large cyst on one of his kidneys.
Last year Dr Yang's family wrote to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese warning his health was rapidly declining and pleading with Mr Albanese to do "all in his power" to secure his release during his visit to China.
China's decision to release former state TV anchor Cheng Lei also briefly stoked optimism among some of Dr Yang's supporters that Beijing might be willing to show him some clemency.
"We have been inspired by the wonderful news of Cheng Lei's release and return to Melbourne," Dr Yang's family wrote.
"We hope that you, Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Ambassador Graham Fletcher can achieve a second miracle by saving our father."
But one Australian government source said Dr Yang's case was "very different" to that of Cheng Lei's, although they did not provide any further detail.
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#20103729 at 2023-12-20 10:19:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese holds first official meeting with New Zealand counterpart Christopher Luxon
Tom Crowley - 20 December 2023
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has met with newly elected New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon in Sydney today.
It is the first in-person meeting between the leaders since Mr Luxon was sworn in last month.
The pair discussed Mr Luxon's interest in exploring opportunities to participate in technology sharing under the AUKUS partnership between Australia, the UK and the US.
Mr Albanese said he was supportive of opportunities for greater co-operation between the two countries' defence forces.
The two leaders spoke warmly of their relationship, with Mr Albanese noting they had known each other for "a very long period of time", dating back to Mr Luxon's tenure as the chief executive of Air New Zealand, which overlapped with Mr Albanese's period as transport minister.
Mr Luxon thanked Mr Albanese for his recent decision to make it easier for New Zealanders to gain Australian citizenship.
"Just putting it out there, I think they're probably your best migrants," Mr Luxon said.
Mr Luxon, who leads the conservative National Party, became prime minister after weeks of negotiations with minor parties, resulting in a coalition with the ACT Party and the NZ First.
His first actions in the job included disbanding the Maori Health Service, reducing the use of Maori language in the public service, and announcing plans to repeal legislation to outlaw tobacco smoking.
Those decisions prompted accusations from Maori Party co-leader Hauauru Debbie Ngarewa-Packer that the government had deteriorated race relations to their worst level "since the earliest stages of colonisation".
Asked about those comments today, Mr Luxon said his government had a "difference of opinion" with the Maori Party and did not believe a separate health authority would deliver good outcomes.
Mr Albanese said he had "no intention of commenting on domestic New Zealand politics", but re-affirmed his own government's commitment to closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Last week, Mr Albanese and Mr Luxon joined with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to call for "urgent international efforts towards a sustainable ceasefire" in Gaza.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-20/anthony-albanese-new-zealand-christopher-luxon-meeting/103249888