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Who put the D in ESG?
Finance made available on the basis of the principles of an environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy is, we are told, the future. The institutions that provide the funds are already lining…
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The answer is transparency, now what was the question?
As we all know by now, the world’s media attention can shift very quickly when bad news strikes. And the grounding of Ever Given wasn’t even particularly bad news; there was no…
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Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste
It was Britain’s favourite Briton (according to TV polls at least) who declaimed that faced with a crisis, one should make the best out of it. For lots of people the week…
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Humans are (still) key to managing the risks of digitalisation
Digitalisation and decarbonisation will be the defining issues for shipping over the next quarter of a century. But the scale of the change they create promises a third issue: how to manage…
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The invisible industry?
The industry needs to find a solution to the challenge keeping people on ships safe and allowing them the same human rights as anybody else.
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Clearing a path to decarbonisation
As has been observed before, shipping is subject to a ‘licence to operate’, implicitly granted by a wide group of stakeholders. There are many moving parts to this arrangement but the newest…
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Are regional regulations really such a terrible idea?
The things that work well and are easy to use tend to become those that endure. Things that are difficult to understand and get to grips with tend to fail and sooner…
An outbreak of speaking truth to power
With hundreds of thousands of seafarers unable to leave their ships because of COVID restrictions, the industry has appealed for help and with a few exceptions been ignored. This is not for want of trying; the efforts of shipping’s trade and professional bodies have sounded warning after warning, with little by way of response.
Don’t sail faster, sail better
Now we know for certain that not all risks are created equal, the shipping industry faces a fundamental question; how does it make the necessary changes to be sustainable and profitable in a fundamentally changed world?
After the flood
Back to normal, business as usual, regular working. All phrases to which millions of people have clung during the last six months as the COVD-19 pandemic upended predictions of what the world would be like in 2020.
About
Neville Smith
Maritime Media Consultant to a roster of international shipping industry clients. Former maritime journalist with 16 years’ experience reporting the shipping and marine insurance markets and former Deputy Editor at Lloyd’s List, I assist clients with matching their communication needs to publications and media channels that gain them their desired level of exposure.
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In April, wind power generated more electricity than coal in the US for the second month in a row, according to @EIAgov data. Wind beat coal once before in April last year, but this time it’s by a much larger margin and for two consecutive months.
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