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An overview of potential MBMs under IMO initial GHG strategy

by The Editorial Team
March 1, 2021
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A new report, published by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and commissioned by Danish Maritime Authority, provides an overview and discussion of potential Market Based Measures under IMO’s Initial GHG Strategy, under a relevant DMA-DTU project on Market Based Measures (MBMs).

In this context, some related developments are also seen as directly relevant to the scope of the project, mainly in the context of the possible inclusion of shipping into the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS).

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In 2010, an Expert Group was tasked to evaluate as many as 11 separate MBM proposals, submitted by various member states and other organizations. All MBM proposals described programs and procedures that would target GHG reductions through either ‘in-sector’ emissions reductions from shipping, or ‘out-of-sector’ reductions via the collection of funds to be used for mitigation activities in other sectors that would contribute towards global reduction of GHG emissions.

MBM proposals submitted to the IMO were the following:

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  1. The International Fund for Greenhouse Gas emissions from ships (GHG Fund) originally proposed by Cyprus, Denmark, the Marshall Islands, Nigeria, and the International Parcel Tanker Association-IPTA (Denmark, 2010).
  2. The Leveraged Incentive Scheme (LIS) to improve the energy efficiency of ships based on the International GHG Fund proposed by Japan (Japan, 2010)
  3. Achieving reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from ships through Port State arrangements utilizing the ship traffic, energy and environment model, STEEM (PSL) proposal by Jamaica (Jamaica, 2010)
  4. The United States proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping, the Ship Efficiency and Credit Trading (SECT) (USA, 2010)
  5. Vessel Efficiency System (VES) proposal by World Shipping Council (WSC, 2010)
  6. The Global Emission Trading System (ETS) for international shipping proposal by Norway (Norway, 2010)
  7. Global Emissions Trading System (ETS) for international shipping proposal by the United Kingdom (UK, 2010)
  8. Further elements for the development of an Emissions Trading System (ETS) for International Shipping proposal by France (France, 2010)
  9. Market-Based Instruments: a penalty on trade and development proposal by the Bahamas (Bahamas, 2010)
  10. A Rebate Mechanism (RM) for a market-based instrument for international shipping proposal by IUCN (IUCN, 2010)

The following developments took place after the above MBMs were submitted to the IMO:

  • A German ETS proposal (Germany, 2010) that was not included in the original MBM list for administrative reasons was reinstated as part of the MBM roster. It was pretty similar to the other three ETS proposals.
  • The Expert Group on MBMs produced a detailed report evaluating the MBM submissions (IMO, 2010), however the report expressed no preference or recommendation for an MBM.
  • The LIS and VES proposals were combined into what was relabeled the Efficiency Incentive Scheme (EIS) (Japan and WSC, 2011)
  • The Bahamian proposal was modified (Bahamas, 2011) and then withdrawn altogether.
  • Greece proposed that a short list of MBMs, consisting of only the GHG Fund and ETS proposals, be established, but this was turned down.
  • A proposal by the Chairman of the Expert Group, who was also the Chairman of MEPC, to perform an impact assessment of the various MBMs was turned down.
  • The MBM discussion at the IMO was suspended in 2013.

The report stresses that MBMs have been included in the Initial IMO Strategy of 2018 as a candidate medium-term measure (to be finalized and agreed to between 2023 and 2030), as follows: “New/innovative emission reduction mechanism(s), possibly including Market-based Measures (MBMs), to incentivize GHG emission reduction.”

Note the word “possibly”, which means that the fate of MBMs at the IMO is currently unclear.

However, the ill-fated discussion on MBMs in 2010-2013 has made IMO interest on MBMs currently limited, but this may change as some Member States, such as France (2018), Small Island Developing States (2018), UK (2020) and the Marshall Islands and Solomon Islands (2020), have asked for the MBM discussion to reopen.

However, other Member States seem opposed to the MBM idea, so at this point in time there is uncertainty on what the future may hold for MBMs at the IMO,

…the report notes.

This comes as reducing maritime GHG emissions via offsetting is not included in the Initial IMO Strategy, at least explicitly, which means it is unclear if the IMO would allow discussion on an MBM that embeds carbon offsetting, if and when the MBM discussion resumes, and assuming that such an MBM is put forward.

The use of monies collected under any MBM is anticipated to involve a serious discussion, and it would seem that such use in carbon offsetting activities cannot be a priori ruled out. Also it should be noted that offsetting was the intended main driver behind the GHG Fund MBM proposed by Denmark et al. in 2010.

Meanwhile, in 2019, the new President of the European Commission revealed that shipping would be included in the EU ETS -an MBM itself-, under the “European Green Deal”. Although, initially, the position of the Commission had been to align itself with the IMO process on decarbonization, this has changed as of December 2019, and the European Green Deal clearly points to the ETS path for shipping. It is still not clear how this will be implemented.

It should also be mentioned that even though no maritime MBM currently exists, the shipping industry may have missed, by a sheer twist of fate, the chance to witness firsthand a real-world “experiment” on the short-term effects of an MBM.

Indeed, the anticipated fuel price increase due to the implementation of the global 0.5% sulphur cap as of 1st January 2020 would be in many respects tantamount to a bunker levy. Under normal circumstances, these higher fuel prices might result in lower speeds and therefore lower GHG emissions.

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However, the outbreak of COVID-19 just after the start of the 0.5% sulphur regulation collapsed fuel prices across the board and the above “experiment” never happened. In fact, COVID-19 resulted in phenomena such as containerships on the Far East to Europe route sailing the longer route around Africa at increased speeds as it was cheaper to do so in lieu of paying the Suez canal tolls, and increasing per trip GHG emissions in the process.

So to anybody who thought that the global sulphur cap would provide an opportunity to see what an MBM could do, that opportunity was missed.

 

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