Tag: UMAS

UCL & UMAS revealed on a report an increasing trend in international shipping emissions in stark contrast to IMO’s objectives.

A recent report by UMAS and Arup underscores the UK's potential to lead in global shipping decarbonization. 

UMAS released an insightful report, anaylizing the IMO MEPC 81 outcome to examine both what opportunity lies ahead, but also the current status of risks that might undermine that opportunity. 

UMAS commented MEPC 81 outcome, noting that the meeting itself was not a point of adoption for measures, but it was a chance to test whether the member states of the IMO were as committed to advance and implement policy measures capable of delivering the Revised GHG Strategy adopted in July 2023.

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.

Lloyd's Register (LR) has released an infographic which features an analysis from Lloyd’s Register Maritime Decarbonisation Hub and UMAS on steel demand and emissions in shipping from 2024 to 2050.

UMAS, the Getting to Zero Coalition, and Race to Zero warn that while it is possible for scalable zero-emission fuels to account for 5% of international shipping fuels by 2030, the window of opportunity is closing quickly, and the industry must act rapidly.

In their latest report, UMAS finds that the International Maritime Organization (IMO)’s Revised GHG Strategy creates a very clear onus for a rapid and strong upwards revision of corporate, national and regional actions.

The 2023 IMO GHG strategy sends an unequivocal signal to investors that ships being ordered today, and many already built, have to be capable of running on zero emission fuels, UMAS notes following MEPC80 decisions. 

The fifteenth Intersessional Working Group on Greenhouse Gases (ISWG GHG 15), which is the final working group meeting before the critical MEPC80, concluded on Friday 30rd of June, highlighting that IMO is at a tipping point and has a last chance to change the course on shipping decarbonization.