ICS calls for sustainable environmental legislation
On IMO World Maritime Day The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), has called for all future proposals for environmental regulation that impact on ships to be subjected to a full and proper cost benefit analysis before adoption by the International Maritime Organization (IMO).ICS is using the occasion of IMO World Maritime Day to explain its views on sustainable shipping, and has produced a special brochure for maritime policy makersICS has set out how the shipping industry supports the goals for sustainable development agreed by world leaders at last year's United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development.ICS Secretary General, Peter Hinchliffe explained: "International shipping directly facilitates the growth of world trade, economic development, and the improvement of global living standards - including amongst the billion or more people that do not yet have access to electricity."In June 2012, world leaders attending the United Nations 'Rio + 20' Summit onSustainable Development agreed that 'poverty eradication is the greatest globalchallenge and indispensible to sustainable development'.As a follow up to the goals agreed by the UNSummit, IMO is now committed to producingsustainable development goals for theinternational shipping industry, an objectivewhich ICS fully supports.The international shipping industry directly facilitatesthe growth of world trade, economic developmentand the ...
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