![]() ![]() While the shipping industry has grown, the levels of planet-heating pollution it produces have grown much more slowly, he told CNN. The industry “takes its responsibility to reduce very seriously,” said Stuart Neil, director of strategy and communications at the International Chamber of Shipping, the industry’s main international trade association. “The focus has been on cutting emissions for more than a decade,” she told CNN. Natasha Brown, the head of public information services at the IMO, said mandatory energy efficiency measures were introduced back in 2011. ![]() ![]() Shipping organizations deny a lack of ambition. The industry’s current climate commitment is to cut levels of planet-heating pollution in half by the middle of the century, compared to 2008 levels – ambition levels that have been criticized, including by UN secretary general António Guterres, as inadequate given the scale of the climate crisis. Some experts say – if the IMO gets it right – it will be the “climate deal of the decade.”Īctivists outside the International Maritime Organization conference in London on July 3, 2023. What’s decided here will have implications for the world’s ability to tackle the climate crisis. In an unassuming brown building on the River Thames in London, representatives from the 175 member states of the International Maritime Organization, the UN body that regulates global shipping, are gathered for a highly anticipated set of negotiations expected to conclude on Friday with a commitment to dramatically cut the industry’s planet-heating pollution. And experts say the industry has flown under the radar when it comes to climate action. The shipping industry is a behemoth, transporting more than 80% of the world’s traded goods in tens of thousands of huge vessels powered by fossil fuels.Īs a result, its climate impact is enormous: It produces around 3% of all human-caused planet-heating pollution. The cellphone in your hand the shoes on your feet the chair you’re sitting on – there’s a good chance these made their way to you on one of the gigantic cargo ships that criss-cross the world’s oceans every day. ![]()
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