Each week, BIV staff will share with you some of the interesting stories we have found from around the web.
Timothy Renshaw, Managing Editor
Major marine cargo carriers are considering a wide range of low-carbon alternatives to heavy bunker oil to power container ships and other large cargo carriers. Wind has thus far taken a distant back-seat to ammonia, methane, hydrogen and LNG, but here's an example of how the renewable, no-carbon shipping energy source from centuries past can still be harnessed on major trade routes to deliver the goods. – Popular Mechanics
A glimmer of hope, perhaps, in global efforts to help humanity stem the rising tide of its deepening sea of plastic pollution.
https://newatlas.com/environment/bioplastic-waste-biodegrades-one-year/
Mark Falkenberg, deputy managing editor
The Royal Bank of Canada is the latest financial institution to announce it will not fund drilling projects in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, citing its “ecological and social significance and vulnerability.” – CBC
Pulitzer winner Carlos Lozada has a bone to pick with what he calls the “Chaos Chronicles” – the litany of tell-all bestsellers about the Trump administration, arguing they have “devolved into a contest for the most explosive, chyron-ready anecdotes” and unconsciously embody the corrupted values of the U.S. maladministration – Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/chaos-trump-white-house/616616/
Nelson Bennett, reporter
Federal carbon taxes will need to be higher than what the federal Liberal government has planned, or Canada will miss its Paris Agreement targets by 77 million tonnes of CO2 in 2030, says the Parliamentary Budget Officer. When a $50 carbon tax is combined with $50 federal fuel charge, Canadians will pay $117 to $289 per tonne in explicit carbon pricing, the PBO estimates. But the carbon tax needs to go higher than the $50 per tonne the Liberal government has targeted for 2022. – Parliamentary Budget Officer
https://www.pbo-dpb.gc.ca/web/default/files/Documents/Reports/RP-2021-019-S/RP-2021-019-S_en.pdf
Glen Korstrom, reporter
LinkedIn has long been seen as the most staid of social media platforms, but this article explains how it is evolving. Some people even view it now as having conversations that are more “on fire” than are those on Twitter – perhaps because of the pandemic and the Black LIves Matter movement. – New York Times
