Earlier this year, countries at the UN agreed to step up climate action on one of the world’s greatest polluters: global shipping. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) set targets to reduce shipping’s 1 billion tons of annual emissions by 2030 and 2040, in order to reach zero by 2050. I had the opportunity to follow […]
The shipping industry is in danger of losing out on a huge opportunity to make impactful and immediate gains in tackling the climate emergency, by only focusing on a narrow set of measures and having a preoccupation with new fuels, according to a new group of leading maritime technology companies and other prominent maritime organisations. .
Group of leading maritime companies calls for the industry, IMO, and EU to give greater priority to energy efficiency and renewable propulsion technologies.