Tag: GHG

Under its GloMEEP project, IMO continues to promote energy-efficient ship operations, this time in Philippines. A workshop taking place in Manila on 23-24 February is equipping 30 maritime educators from across the country with the knowledge to introduce the topic of ship energy-efficiency into their teaching curriculums.

ECSA regrets that European port and cargo interests have come out in favour of the European Parliament’s position to conditionally include shipping in the EU ETS as of 2023, if the IMO does not have a comparable system operating by 2021. European port and freight forwarder associations did confirm that a global agreement is their preferred option to curb greenhouse gas emissions of ships.

According to the New Zealand Shipping Federation, carbon charges to local shipping companies are estimated to be approximately $250,000 per ship each year while foreign container ships that visit New Zealand ports do not pay emissions costs.

Over the past ten years, less of the greenhouse gas is reaching the Earth's atmosphere due to an increase in oceanic CO2 uptake. However, rising levels of CO2 in the ocean promote acidification. Thus, UC Santa Barbara conducted new research demonstrating that a slowdown of the ocean's overturning circulation is the likely catalyst.

Smart Freight Center (SFC) and FEPORT sign an MoU to incorporate the most appropriate existing methodologies for port terminals in the Global Logistics Emissions Council (GLEC) Framework which aims to tackle the global freight and logistics sectors carbon dioxide emissions.

The Prime Minister of Fiji, has undertaken a few key priorities for his country’s Presidency of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn in November (COP23), calling for steeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and to ramp up the finance developing countries need to green their economies and build resilience to the inevitable impacts of climate change.

INTERCARGO expressed its full support and total alignment with IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim’s concerns that including shipping in the European Union’s Emission Trading System (EU-ETS) could undermine efforts to reduce GHG emissions from ships on a global basis.

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has written to senior European officials expressing his concern that including shipping in the European Union’s Emission Trading System (EU-ETS) could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from shipping on a global basis.

Damen Shipyards Group has signed a multi vessel contract which represents part of Ivory Coast’s government’s forward-thinking plan that strives to reduce urban congestion and greenhouse gas emissions in the city Abidjan.

For decades, marine chemists have faced an elusive paradox. The surface waters of the world's oceans are supersaturated with the greenhouse gas methane, yet most species of microbes that can generate the gas can't survive in oxygen-rich surface waters. This longstanding riddle, known as the "marine methane paradox," may have finally been cracked thanks to a new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).