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green
Logistics Rotterdam: Europe's Biggest Port Faces Growing Pressure to Cut Fossil Fuel Emissions
The Port of Rotterdam, Europe's busiest freight hub, is under increasing environmental pressure, including a lawsuit from Advocates for the Future. The port handles nearly as much cargo as all UK ports combined and its industrial cluster emits about 29 million tonnes of CO2 annually. The Port Authority has set a target to cut its own emissions by 90% by 2030 and is investing in carbon capture, hydrogen, and alternative fuels.
Logistics China Launches First Zero-Carbon Sea-River Electric Container Route Linking Jiaxing and Ningbo-Zhoushan
China has launched its first sea-river intermodal zero-carbon shipping route, using the 10,000-ton pure electric containership Ningyuan Dianpeng. The service links Jiaxing port to Ningbo-Zhoushan, saving 800 tonnes of fuel and cutting over 2,000 tonnes of CO2 annually per vessel.
Green SARC: Predictive Cost and Carbon Governance Framework for Agentic AI Systems
A new framework called Green SARC applies the SARC governance-by-architecture approach to predict and bound financial and environmental costs of agentic AI systems. The paper reports four policy-independent results including that an architectural gate achieves 0% over-budget incidents while soft penalties breach 91.5% of budgets. End-to-end token, USD, and carbon savings range from 47% to 55%, depending on policy settings.