During the G7 summit in Biarritz, the French President Emmanuel Macron suggested that reducing ships’ speed would be one way to decrease maritime transport’s carbon emissions footprint. This is a proposal that Greece has supported as well.
Emmanuel Macron believes that reducing speed would be ‘one of the most efficient ways of reducing emissions’. For this reason France recommended using this measure, in IMO during April.
In addition, cutting speed would also limit sound pollution, thus reducing...
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