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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

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15 countries, Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Uruguay and Wales declared that they will collaborate towards realizing 100 percent zero emission new trucks and bus sales by 2040.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 11 – 17)

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9, according to Xeneta, a Norway-based transportation data firm, reflecting lower freight demand as retailers cut orders and consumer spending continues to decline. Some companies expect to cut ocean-freight rates by half or more, which in turn could allow retailers to slow or stop price increases for goods. West Coast was $2,618 as of Feb.

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EV Startups: Growing with the Shift to ACES

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The reality is, change is happening too fast for many organizations and the automotive industry’s shift to ACES is an example of this! . Some of us may be set up to succeed, while others not so much. ACES: Catalysts for the Future of Automotive Mobility.

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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

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For example, new laws have been or will soon be enacted in the U.S. Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, and the UK have all passed similar due diligence, human rights, and anti-slavery legislation. and across Europe. The legislation generally seeks to implement the standards set by the U.N.

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How America's Clean Coal Dream Unravelled

Supply Chain Brain

The $7.5bn Kemper power plant once drew officials from as far as Saudi Arabia, Japan and Norway to marvel at a 21st-century power project so technologically complex its builder compared it to the moonshot of the 1960s. It’s promise? Energy from “clean coal.” “I’m

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Your Supply Chain Needs a New Place to Put Plastic

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When a consumer in the US or the EU disposed of a plastic bottle, for example, that bottle would be collected by a municipal recycling plant, sorted into a bin with other plastic bottles, and finally sent to China, where the actual recycling and remanufacturing of the bottle would occur. Will Norway be the world’s next trash destination?

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Bitcoin and the Brutal Truth!

Supply Chain Game Changer

You can consider the example that you can buy beer with $10 worth of bitcoins one day, but the other day, you can buy wine with the same bitcoin. The energy consumption for the bitcoin network itself is equal to the energy consumed by a whole nation like Argentina and Norway. The post Bitcoin and the Brutal Truth!