Tag: COP26

Seafarers urged the UK government and industry to invest in the maritime workforce of the future with targeted, modern training in green technologies in order to reach environmental targets.

Shipowners can deliver the target of net-zero emission shipping by 2050, but only with an acceleration in the commercial development of technologies, fuels, propulsion systems and related infrastructure, INTERGARGO warns.

A partnership between the US government and the World Economic Forum, called "the First Movers Coalition", aims to drive sectors with most emissions, including shipping, into cleaner and more efficient technologies.

The world’s most climate vulnerable countries (CVF) from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific, have signed the ‘Dhaka-Glasgow Declaration of the Climate Vulnerable Forum’, calling the IMO to set a greenhouse gas levy on shipping.

Environmental consultancy Ricardo, issued a white paper, urging that movement to decarbonise the maritime sector must be started now.

IMO provided an update on the latest progress and achievements in addressing GHG emissions from international shipping at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26).

The Society of Maritime Industries (SMI) will issue the findings of its ‘Green Maritime Survey’ at the COP26 climate change summit.

The Maritime Union of New Zealand is backing a global worker-led campaign to reduce emissions in the shipping industry to net zero by 2050.

President Joe Biden is expected to present plans at COP26, aiming to limit global methane emissions by 30% from 2020 levels by the end of the decade.

A total of 14 countries have signed a declaration during COP26, urging the IMO to take immediate action in order to achieve zero emission shipping by 2050.