Tag: COP28

A new initiative has emerged during COP 28, the “2030 Shipping Pact for People and Nature (SPPaN)”, to address the interconnected challenges of pollution, biodiversity loss, and the climate crisis and the potential co-benefits of shipping decarbonization for people and nature.

At the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach unveiled a Partnership Strategy for a green and digital shipping corridor across the Pacific Ocean.

A new report released at the margins of COP28 by UMAS, details the annualised total costs of zero emission container vessels and the cost difference on a per container basis for transpacific and coastal ships under different fuel pathways.

On the occasion of the “Eliminating Methane Emissions by 2030” roundtable partnered by the COP28 Presidency, TotalEnergies announces the signing of three cooperation agreements with Petrobras in Brazil, SOCAR in Azerbaijan and Sonangol in Angola, to carry out methane detection and measurement campaigns using the AUSEA technology on oil and gas facilities in Brazil, Azerbaijan, and Angola.

Today at COP 28, thirty shipping sector leaders have committed to scaling up zero-emissions fuel derived from renewables-based hydrogen to nearly 11 million tonnes by 2030.

Sumitomo Corporation and Höegh Autoliners, on the back of COP28 held in Dubai, announced that the parties are charting a greener course in deep-sea transportation of Ro-Ro cargo, such as cars, high and heavy machinery and breakbulk, by forging an agreement to look into the supply of clean ammonia as a bunker fuel at the ports of Singapore and Jacksonville, USA from 2027 onwards.

APM Terminals and DP World announced the formation of the Zero Emission Port Alliance (ZEPA), an industry-wide strategic coalition with the goal of accelerating the journey to zero emissions for container handling equipment (CHE) at ports.

During COP28, Waleid Gamal El-Dien, chairman of General Authority of the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE), Alaa Hagar, Head of the Egyptian Minister of Petroleum’s Technical Office, and Terje Pilskog, CEO of Scatec ASA, signed an MoU aimed at issuing a license to practice the activity of ships’ bunkering with green fuel for Scatec in East Port Said.

The CEOs of Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, MSC, and Wallenius Wilhelmsen have issued a joint declaration at COP 28 calling for an end date for fossil-only powered newbuilds, urging the IMO to create the regulatory conditions to accelerate the transition to green fuels.

The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 opened, with an emphatic plea to expedite global climate action. The meeting is held during what is already predicted to be the warmest year in human history and as the effects of the climate catastrophe wreak unimaginable devastation on people's lives and means of subsistence all over the globe.