The Paris Agreement was aiming to bring forward a more global inclusive regime debatably, the bottom-up inspiration by Paris Agreement could lead IMO to highlight ‘NDCs of shipping industry’.
More than any other sector, transport is under pressure to boost efficiency and cut emissions. In Singapore, the main sources of air pollution are emissions from the industries and motor vehicles .
The IPCC special report Global Warming of 1.5c summarised that human activities have estimated caused 0.8 to 1.2 degrees c increase of global temperature and under current pathways most likely to reach 1.5 degrees c increase between 2030 to 2052.
Shipowner Philippe Louis-Dreyfus, chief architect of the plan for mandatory speed limits at sea, says he is “disappointed but not surprised” by the IMO’s failure to support the idea at its Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions...
The Tripartite Forum of the shipping industry, which includes shipbuilders, has voiced concern that VLCCs may not be able to meet the requirements of EEDI Phase 3.
An ambitious goal toward a total decarbonisation of international shipping by 2030 has been announced at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York on Monday, leading to the set up of the ‘Getting to Zero Coalition’ movement.
Ocean-going vessels going on full electric propulsion may still not be a foreseeable scenario at least in the near future. However there’s no denying that shipping has an eye on a battery-powered future, attested by an increasing interest in the...
A recent Norwegian study has concluded that the continued use of heavy fuel oil with exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS), or scrubbers, will have a positive effect on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Eleven major shipping banks representing a bank loan portfolio to global shipping of around $100bn have launched a new global framework to incentivise shipping’s move toward decarbonisation.Named the Poseidon Principles, the framework will assess...
