Decarbonising the Shipping Industry: A Status Report

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Abstract _x000D_ The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical overview of the present status of international regulatory efforts addressing GHG emissions from ships. It will do so by tracing the evolution of mitigation policies and regulations and examining their adequacy, practicability as well as fairness. The principal focus of this paper will be on reducing GHG emission from ships themselves as the most direct and effective approach to improving the shipping industry’s climate profile. International shipping, as an intrinsically globally operating industry, ultimately requires consistency, if not uniformity, in regulation which only a global regime can provide. Therefore, the focus here is on efforts by the international community at large, and specifically by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), to meet the challenges of the climate crisis and to ensure that the shipping industry contributes its “fair share” to the mitigation of GHG emissions worldwide._x000D_

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