For safe, secure and efficient shipping on clean oceans
In pursuing its mission – safe, secure and efficient shipping on clean oceans – IMO works vigorously and consistently towards developing a comprehensive regulatory regime aimed at effectively protecting the environment from pollution by ships.
The 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC and the 8th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol will take place from Monday, 26 November to Friday, 7 December 2012 at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha, Qatar.
IMO’s objectives for COP 18/CMP 8
IMO’s main objectives for the Doha Conference (COP 18/CMP 8) are that:
- IMO continues to be entrusted with the development and enactment of global regulations on the control of GHG emissions from ships engaged in international trade;
- in all communications seek to make clear that international shipping regulations are currently applied to all ships according to the non-discriminatory principle on which the IMO regulatory framework is based; and
- the interests of developing countries are fully taken into account, through IMO’s Technical Cooperation Programme and that impacts from any future market-based instrument for international shipping under the auspices of IMO would be assessed.
Learn more about IMO’s participation at COP 18 by clicking here.
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