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The US, the European Union, Japan, Canada, Norway, Singapore and the United Kingdom committed to taking swift action to address the two climate and energy security crises the world faces, by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.

84% of shipping traffic goes through Europe, China and the US, a new Transport & Environment (T&E) study shows. If these economies were to regulate ships calling at their ports, they could decarbonise the lion’s share of the industry and in doing so bypass the “ineffective” IMO, says T&E.

As the trilogue negotiations on the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) are progressing, ECSA calls on the Parliament and the Council to ensure that the requirements on fuel suppliers in RED III match the requirements placed on shipowners by FuelEU Maritime.

A group of companies, including among others Google, urged the EU to enact a policy framework that provides clarity as soon as possible while ensuring that hydrogen produced by electrolysis actually reduces emissions as the industry develops and scales.

The European Commission launched the third call for large-scale projects under the EU Innovation Fund, with a budget doubled to €3 billion.

In response to the REPowerEU plan of the European Commission, the Port of Rotterdam prepared a position paper with concrete policy recommendations to realize hydrogen imports following recent ambitions of the European Commission.

The Association of European Renewable Energy Research Centers (EUREC) published the report, “5% of new capacity from "Innovative’ Renewable Energy – A necessary and do-able enhancement to the Renewable Energy Directive."

The European Transport Workers' Federation is demanding an end to a loophole in EU competition law that benefits shipowners at the expense of maritime workers.

ESPO welcomed the outcome of the European Parliament's (EP) vote on the proposals for the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) and the FuelEU Maritime Regulation on 19 October.

A drone has revealed the length of underwater Nord Stream pipeline that could only have been caused by one or more massive underwater explosions, according to experts.