Maersk to Build First Green and Smart Flagship Logistics Centre in Shanghai

Maersk signed the Land Grant Contract with the administrative committee of Lin-gang new area of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone in late December 2022. This marks the official landing of Maersk’s first green and smart flagship logistics centre in China. With a total investment of 174 million US dollars, the project is expected to start […]

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Hong Kong To Raise up to US$5 Billion in Green Bonds

Hong Kong has committed to a five-fold increase in green bond issuance in the next five years Investors have shown strong demand for previous issuances Hong Kong has sold US$7.2 billion in sovereign green bonds across different currencies since 2019 Hong Kong aims to raise up to the equivalent of $5 billion in a dollar, […]

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How the EU is helping partner countries fight climate change

Climate change cannot be stopped immediately and some of its consequences are inevitable, even if we could cut all our emissions now. This is why the EU has been helping communities around the world adapt to the changes already happening. For instance, the EU has created five ‘ecovillages’ in Tanzania to fight the desertification caused […]

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2023 arrangement for the execution of transfers between the emission trading registries of the EU and Switzerland

The Joint Committee under the EU and Swiss Linking Agreement agreed on the 2023 arrangements for the transfers of emission allowances between the registries of the EU Emissions Trading System and the Swiss Emissions Trading System. The Agreement between the EU and Switzerland on the linking of their Emission Trading Systems entered into force on […]

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Top 5 most read SNA articles for 2022

(Seychelles News Agency) – The year 2022 brought some relief for Seychelles from the challenges of COVID-19 as restrictions were removed and the Seychelles’ economy rebounded. However, the war between Russia and Ukraine created new challenges. As the world gets ready for 2023, SNA looks back at its five most-read articles of 2022. The entire SNA […]

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Commission launches Climate Resilience Dialogue

Last month, the Commission launched the Climate Resilience Dialogue, as announced in its Strategy for Financing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy as well as in the new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change. The first meeting of the dialogue brought together insurers, reinsurers, the corporate sector, consumers, public authorities and other stakeholders to […]

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Driving emission reductions and enabling climate and energy investment

The European Commission has today adopted its annual Carbon Market Report, which tracks the functioning of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) from the beginning of the fourth trading phase in 2021 up until to mid-2022. The report finds that ETS emissions from stationary installations (energy and carbon-intensive industry) increased in 2021, by 6.6% compared […]

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Editor’s Choice (110:12): eCO2 alleviates adverse effects of drought

The editor’s choice for our December issue is “Elevated CO2 alleviates adverse effects of drought on plant water relations and photosynthesis: A global meta-analysis” by Zhaoguo Wang, et al. Here, Associate Editor Alessio Collalti and colleague Paulina F. Puchi discuss the importance of this research:  The rapid increase of atmospheric CO2 concentration has caused an increment in […]

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How the climate and biodiversity are intimately linked, and what the EU is doing to protect them both

Weeks after the COP27 UN climate conference in Egypt and with the COP15 biodiversity conference in Canada still ongoing, it is clearer than ever that the two crises – climate change and biodiversity loss – are interconnected and need to be tackled together. Warmer temperatures, droughts, rising sea levels: these and other extreme consequences of […]

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