Tag: UNFCCC

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has outlined its latest progress and plans to decarbonize global shipping by or around 2050, in a submission to the Bonn Climate Conference. 

RightShip, an ESG-focused digital maritime platform, has announced a partnership to collaborate with the Port of London Authority (PLA) in its efforts to support the transition to Net Zero on the Thames.

UMAS report on the latest intersessional IMO meeting (ISWG-GHG 14 at London, 20-24 March 2023) presents the discussion on the guiding principles section of the upcoming GHG strategy.

The Fiji Government has become the 11th country to submit its long-term strategy (LTS) for low emission development 2018-2050 to the UNFCCC Secretariat. Fiji's Low Emission Development Strategy (LEDS) sets as a priority the long-term emission reductions and also sets long-term sustainable and resilient economy-wide mitigation pathways until 2050.

At the DNV GL Talks Energy podcast series, Jose Maria Figueres and Christiana Figueres, addressed the issues of keeping the increase of temperature to 2 degrees, supporting that in order to achieve this, a wide cooperation is necessary.

An international shipping industry group gathered in Bonn to create a draft Action Plan that maps out how shipping can contribute to GHG reductions and decarbonization in order to comply with the high ambition climate change target of limiting global temperatures to 1.5oC.

As part of this year's UN Climate Change Conference COP23 in Bonn, consolidating the aims and ambitions of the Paris Agreement, a group of international shipping leaders will meet on 13 November, onboard the RheinFantasie river vessel,  to create an Action Plan for the decarbonisation of the maritime sector.

Speaking on the eve of IMO World Maritime Day, ICS Chairman Esben Poulsson, expressed confidence that the IMO's strategy on greenhouse gas reduction from shipping, once adopted next year, will match the goals and philosophy of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

A group of international shipping industry leaders will join forces at the 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change in November, to drive industry action on decarbonisation.

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.