Soot Free for the Climate

As this week’s International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee meeting (IMO, MEPC 82) closed this afternoon, the Clean Shipping Coalition urged the national delegations of countries that support ambitious climate action to properly resource and pick up the pace of negotiations to ensure that shipping’s climate pollution peaks and reduces in line with the IMO’s 2023 GHG strategy, thus curbing the sector’s contribution to the worst impacts of climate breakdown.

London, 27 September 2024:- Ahead of next week’s International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee meeting (IMO, MEPC 82, September 30-October 4), the Clean Shipping Coalition urged national delegations that support ambitious climate action to also insist that the IMO revise its ship efficiency standards to ensure the organisation’s climate targets are met. Along with […]

Ahead of this week’s International Maritime Organization’s Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships (IMO, IWSG-GHG-17, September 23-17) and next week’s Marine Environment Protection Committee meeting (MEPC 82, September 30-October 4), the Clean Shipping Coalition today demanded that the IMO meet its own GHG Strategy targets by urgently taking action in three key areas regarding fuel and emissions for global shipping.