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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    It also pumps out air pollutants that waft ashore to coastal communities, which was linked to an estimated 60,000 premature deaths in a year.

    “This has a really terrible public health impact on poor communities,” says Eric Leveridge, corporate climate campaign manager at Pacific Environment, one of the groups in the Ship It Zero coalition.

    They also say companies can have a big impact by pushing ports to electrify, allowing ships to plug into the grid instead of running their engines at berth.

    Ikea’s greenhouse gas emissions from upstream transportation have fallen despite the company’s growth, thanks in part to moving goods on vessels that run on biofuels.

    Ikea and Lowe’s were the only two companies that responded to questions from the coalition, which had to rely heavily on data each brand had previously shared publicly.

    Only The Home Depot responded to a press inquiry from The Verge before publication, saying in an email that it “partners closely with ocean freight carriers who care about environmental stewardship as much as we do, and we make sure to understand their current and future goals to decarbonize maritime transport.”


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