{"id":3105,"date":"2023-03-01T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2023\/03\/01\/abp-plans-for-the-energy-transition-and-net-zero\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:02:07","slug":"abp-plans-for-the-energy-transition-and-net-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/projects-initiatives-greenport\/abp-plans-for-the-energy-transition-and-net-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"ABP plans for the energy transition and net zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abports.co.uk\/media\/fo2ii2cv\/abp-ready-for-tomorrow.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ready for Tomorrow<\/a>&nbsp;looks both internally at ABP\u2019s own operations and outwards to meet the challenges and grasp the opportunities of the energy transition and sustainability as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClimate change is an era-defining challenge, but it is also an opportunity to scale innovative new industries to leave an optimistic legacy for generations to come,\u201d said&nbsp;Henrik L. Pedersen, chief executive officer, ABP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to working together with industry partners and authorities to turn this generational crisis into a generational opportunity: to create a decarbonised, dramatically more sustainable future and deliver the significant investment, economic growth and thousands of new, good jobs that should come with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Focus areas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For ABP\u2019s own operations Ready for Tomorrow identifies five focus areas for action: Net zero, air quality, biodiversity, waste and water management.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy includes the plan to continue developing its leading offshore wind manufacturing and support hubs in the Humber and East Anglia, as well as more than doubling its own green power generation.<\/p>\n<p>ABP\u2019s future major projects portfolio, along with industrial partners, includes bold, transformational developments in South Wales, the Solent, Humber and East Anglia. These cover floating offshore wind (including a major integration port hub centred on Port Talbot), hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, industrial decarbonisation and alternative fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking to address sustainability in the broadest sense, ABP said it is not only aiming to make environmental improvements, but is also looking to strengthen its role in adding long-term value to the UK economy and society.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated British Ports (ABP) new sustainability strategy is backed by a plan to invest around GB\u00a32 billion in decarbonising its own operations by 2040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,8],"tags":[28,566,670,9,485,870],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport","category-projects-initiatives-greenport","tag-abp","tag-associated-british-ports","tag-energy-transition","tag-ports","tag-projects","tag-sustainability-strategy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}