Maritime Executive: Op-Ed: Three GHG Meetings in London Can Transform Shipping
The International shipping sector provides an outsized and growing contribution to the climate crisis, already causing around 3% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – shipping’s annual emissions are about as much as a major industrial country like Japan. Using slower, cleaner, more efficient ships to move freight around the world can help slash climate emissions – but this will not happen without ambitious regulation from the International Maritime Organization
In early April, a three-leg summit at the International Maritime Organization’s London HQ must set the course for how the IMO will regulate the shipping sector to reduce its climate heating impact.
Governments must use this crucial two-week window to slash shipping’s climate heating greenhouse gas emissions. This means securing agreement on a strong energy efficiency measure (the Carbon Intensity Indicator), enforceable and ambitious global fuel standards, and a greenhouse gas levy on all shipping emissions that will dramatically reduce the sector’s contribution to the climate crisis.
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