London, April 7th, 2022:- A week that opened with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lambasting governments and industry for their climate inaction, and the IPCC’s Climate Mitigation report criticising the poor climate governance of international shipping, is set to close with the UN’s shipping agency, the IMO, again kicking climate concerns into the long grass, by failing to reduce the climate impacts on the Arctic fromthe black carbon emissions responsible for 20% of shipping’s climate...
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Zero-Carbon Fuels Vs Marine Shipping
Zero-carbon fuels and marine shipping: Both a will and a way? says an article on Greenbiz.
Marine shippingThe marine shipping sector consumes around 10 quadrillion British thermal units (Btus) of fuel and emits 1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide each year. That’s more than all of Germany’s emissions, more than all of Saudi Arabia’s emissions, and roughly equal to the emissions from all passenger vehicles in the United States. By any reasonable measure, the shipping industry is a major...