Tag: COP21

In light of DNV GL's Energy Transition Outlook 2019 launch, this infographic describes 10 measures that aim to help close the emissions gap to well below 2°C. However, DNV GL added that policies must also be developed in order to mitigate at least three fronts at the same time: higher energy efficiency, more renewables, and industrial-scale CCS.

The European Investment Bank, Societe Generale and Brittany Ferries announced that they have signed the first green maritime financing under EIB’s EUR 750m Green Shipping Guarantee programme, which started last year by the EIB and Societe Generale.

Following the COP21 Outcome in Paris last December, think tank Friends of Europe created the following infographic which depicts what needs to be done to implement the new climate deal and limit the global temperature rise to 2°C.

Over the course of the year the extent of the shipping industry’s confusion – some would say delusion – on how to clean up its emissions became clear, says Sotiris Raptis, shipping and aviation officer, European Federation for Transport and Environment.

SSI says that MEPC 69 is crucial landmark for IMO to demonstrate commitment to CO2 reduction

IRClass ship classification society has issued a ringing endorsement of the COP21 agreement at the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris.

WMU welcomes the historic agreement to combat climate change that was agreed in Paris on 12 December (''Paris Agreement'') in which 195 Nations set path to keep temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius.

European shipowners welcome the ambitious and forward-looking climate change agreement reached in Paris this weekend. They call on all actors involved to work together for decisive action in the IMO, which is the appropriate international body to address greenhouse gas emissions from ships engaged in international trade.

IMO welcomed the historic achievement of the COP21; the Paris Climate Change Agreement which identifies a clear goal of “holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.”

Maersk Line is disappointed that ‘Paris Agreement'' does not include regulation of the shipping industry