Shipping via arctic routes would cut distance, thus decrease ghg. bUT ….EMISSIONS PER UNIT DISTANCE TRAVELLED WOULD PRESUMABLY INCREASE
CoP26 COMMITMENTS MEAN IMO MUST HALVE SHIPPING cO EMISSIONS BY 2030, SAY CLIMATE ADVOCACY GROUPS
Advocacy groups including Clean Shipping Coalition, Clean Arctic Alliance, Global Choices, Seas at Risk, Opportunity Green, Pacific Environment, Greenpeace, WWF- Canada, Environmental Defense Fund and ECODES, call on IMO to make sure climate commitments at COP26 translate into concrete action.
The groups issued the following statement.
Recent IPCC reports and the developments at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow are a wake-up call that the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) cannot ignore. Countries must now build on their commitments to save the Paris Agreement’s 1.5° temperature goal with concrete action and halve shipping emissions by 2030 at the IMO.
There is currently no strategy in place at the IMO to achieve any significant ship emission reductions before 2030, let alone the reductions necessary to keep the sector on a pathway consistent with warming below 1.5°. Under the current IMO regulations ship emissions continue to rise out to 2030 and the shipping industry will exhaust its 1.5 degree carbon budget by 2029.
At next week’s 77th session of IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (“MEPC77”), IMO member states must urgently align the agency’s work on reducing climate impacts from shipping with the COP26 developments.
In particular, countries have the opportunity to:
These actions constitute a significant increase in the ambition of IMO’s climate work but they are necessary if we want the shipping industry to contribute to keeping global heating below 1.5° and save billions of people around the world from climate chaos.
The COP26 summit has already laid an important foundation for this shift, as:
We applaud the signatories for their climate leadership and urge them to make their presence felt at MEPC77. We insist that they stick to their positions on aligning with the 1.5° temperature goal, thereby having to halve shipping emissions by 2030, and support a carbon levy inside the IMO as well as outside it.
"There is currently no strategy in place at the IMO to achieve any significant ship emission reductions before 2030, let alone the reductions necessary to keep the sector on a pathway consistent with warming below 1.5°. Under the current IMO regulations ship emissions continue to rise out to 2030 and the shipping industry will exhaust its 1.5 degree carbon budget by 2029.
1.5 degree carbon budget?????
Distance less YES. But travel in other that totally ice-free conditions will be 'slow', so "emission-hours per ship" may not change....which may mean emissions hours per voyage do not change (much)
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