Every vote counts Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), which represents all sectors and trades and over 80% of world merchant tonnage, is calling on governments to support a crucial vote, next week, at the London-based UN International Maritime Organization (IMO), to help shipping deliver meaningful CO2 emissions reductions on a global basis. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ICS member national shipowners associations are lobbying their governments hard to ensure that they support the adoption of global rules on technical and operational measures, which ICS believes will deliver at least a 20% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020, per tonne-km of trade carried by sea.Every vote will count. explained ICS Secretary General, Peter Hinchliffe.We appreciate that some developing countries - in our view mistakenly - are concerned that a positive IMO decision on technical measures, that will apply to all ships equally, regardless of flag, might somehow prejudice their positions at the high level UN Climate Change negotiations. But any failure to agree at IMO will make discussions on the reduction of shippings emissions far more difficult. As well as being bad for the environment, a no vote will threaten the level playing ...
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