Emissions reporting has upped the ante – with container shipping statistics labelled as “quite favourable”, while the impact on climate change from aviation contrails will triple by 2050.
The EU has released its Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) data on vessel CO2 emissions. Containerships emit 28% of CO2 emissions from international shipping into and out of the EU, or a quarter of total shipping emissions.
“To put that in context, container shipping carries about two-thirds of...