Source: MGN
Last Friday (11 December) BIMCO and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) pushed the case for IMO oversee greenhouse gas emission cuts by the shipping industry at a special side event they hosted for participants at the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP 15). Senior shipowners’ representatives explained current efforts to further improve fuel efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions from ships, using new technology and operational measures.
The event presented the consensus, throughout the global shipping industry, that the most effective means of reducing ships’ CO2 emissions will be for the Copenhagen Conference to give IMO a mandate to finalise the comprehensive package of technical and economic measures which it has already developed. IMO will be best placed to apply these to all ships in international trade, rather than only to the 35% of the world fleet that is currently registered with nations that are Kyoto Annex I countries.
The shipping industry representatives also explained the vital importance of governments avoiding ‘carbon leakage’ from within the shipping sector. IMO has a successful track record of delivering environmental standards for ships that are enforced worldwide, as for example the recent IMO agreement to reduce ships’ sulphur emissions and nitrous oxides (another greenhouse gas) dramatically and on a global basis.
Meanwhile the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) says it will champion the cause of safe, clean public transport at a special seminar for delegates at the Copenhagen climate change talks tomorrow (Tuesday 15 December). ITF General Secretary David Cockroft said: “Transport is one of the absolute key areas when looking at climate change. Yet governments and consumers can easily underestimate the massive changes that it has undergone. Globalisation has now brought the cost of transporting goods down to less than one percent of their total production cost. The price for that deregulated world of ultra-cheap movement of often non-essential products has been paid in pollution, energy consumption, and in reduced safety, working conditions and living standards for transport workers. A continuing, unfettered free market cannot address these problems.” He said: “Cheap, unregulated transport doesn’t just drive down wages and cost jobs, it also harms the environment and puts passengers and workers at risk. Finding better solutions that respect the environment begins with finding solutions that respect those who work in, travel in and rely on, the transport sector.”
Last Friday (11 December) BIMCO and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) pushed the case for IMO oversee greenhouse gas emission cuts by the shipping industry at a special side event they hosted for participants at the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP 15). Senior shipowners’ representatives explained current efforts to further improve fuel efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions from ships, using new technology and operational measures.
The event presented the consensus, throughout the global shipping industry, that the most effective means of reducing ships’ CO2 emissions will be for the Copenhagen Conference to give IMO a mandate to finalise the comprehensive package of technical and economic measures which it has already developed. IMO will be best placed to apply these to all ships in international trade, rather than only to the 35% of the world fleet that is currently registered with nations that are Kyoto Annex I countries.
The shipping industry representatives also explained the vital importance of governments avoiding ‘carbon leakage’ from within the shipping sector. IMO has a successful track record of delivering environmental standards for ships that are enforced worldwide, as for example the recent IMO agreement to reduce ships’ sulphur emissions and nitrous oxides (another greenhouse gas) dramatically and on a global basis.
Meanwhile the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) says it will champion the cause of safe, clean public transport at a special seminar for delegates at the Copenhagen climate change talks tomorrow (Tuesday 15 December). ITF General Secretary David Cockroft said: “Transport is one of the absolute key areas when looking at climate change. Yet governments and consumers can easily underestimate the massive changes that it has undergone. Globalisation has now brought the cost of transporting goods down to less than one percent of their total production cost. The price for that deregulated world of ultra-cheap movement of often non-essential products has been paid in pollution, energy consumption, and in reduced safety, working conditions and living standards for transport workers. A continuing, unfettered free market cannot address these problems.” He said: “Cheap, unregulated transport doesn’t just drive down wages and cost jobs, it also harms the environment and puts passengers and workers at risk. Finding better solutions that respect the environment begins with finding solutions that respect those who work in, travel in and rely on, the transport sector.”
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