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ChatGPT generated panoramic image of a port skyline with a large containership plugged into a grid connection, battery icon glowing, and a stack labeled “Synthetic Fuels Deferred”

Net-Zero by 2050: The IMO’s Victory—and the Case for Less Fuel, Not More

In April 2025, the International Maritime Organization did something rare for a UN body: it passed a binding climate policy. Not advisory, not aspirational, but actual mandatory rules. The agreement commits international shipping to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions “by or around 2050,” and despite the ambiguity of that phrasing, the … [continued]

ChatGPT generated aerial panoramic view of flooded rice paddies under the sun, with a visual overlay showing slower nutrient diffusion from oxamide pellets

Green Oxamide vs Green Ammonia: The Chemistry Behind a Smarter Fertilizer

China’s latest move in green fertilizer chemistry hasn’t made headlines, but it represents a quietly significant development. A new facility in Xinjiang will soon be producing half a million tonnes of oxamide fertilizer per year—using captured CO₂, green hydrogen, and green ammonia. That sentence alone folds in three separate decarbonization … [continued]

Midjourney generated image of a jigsaw puzzle with pieces of hydroelectric dams, wind turbines, transmission, Quebec's fleur de lys, farm fields, fork lifts and ships

On Hydrogen Forklifts, Bitcoin Mining and Green Fertilizer

The common thread among the disparate things in the title is hydrogen, whether green, gray or pitch black. What, you might ask does hydrogen have to do with forklifts, cryptocurrency and green fertilizer? Read on. Let’s start with forklifts. Recently they splashed across screens again, as Amazon installed a hydrogen … [continued]

ChatGPT & DALL-E generated panoramic image illustrates the metaphor of green hydrogen as the key to the future, with elements of Quebec's landscape and agriculture.

Quebec Has All Conditions For Success To Be Green Fertilizer Giant

As we consider how major industries will shift, one of the key questions is what industries by definition are high carbon in one place but can be green as the driven snow in another? And so we come to fertilizer, and not the kind that comes from the north end … [continued]