The previous UN Climate Change Conference, COP26 (literally: the ‘Conference of Parties’), took place in Glasgow in early November 2021 as the UK hosted the 26th meeting of signatory nations to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was first agreed on back in 1992.
In terms of shipping, COP26 was a timely set of discussions ahead of an important session of the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee, which planned to discuss cutting GHG...