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Climate Action Summit Recognizes IMO’s Climate Change Strategies

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has been reporting on the solid progress being made by the Organization to reduce GHG emissions from international shipping, in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular, SDG 13 on Climate change, says an article published in Sea News.

IMO’s Fight Against Climate Change

​The UN Climate Action Summit in New York (23 September) is giving global leaders the chance to show the world concrete proposals and tangible actions being taken in the...

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Shipping Environmental Efforts All ‘Set to Go’

The maritime industry is moving full steam ahead toward overhauling how ships get their power despite dissent from some vessel owners over the impact to their operations and concerns from shipping customers over how costs will be shared across supply chains, says an article published in The Wall Street Journal.

All Set To Go?

“We are all set to go,” said Kitack Lim, secretary-general of global shipping regulator the International Maritime Organization.“Compliant fuel will be available and it’s...

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Asean Members of IMO Discussed Environment Plan in MEPSEAS Meeting

Street view of International Maritime Organization building in Lambeth, London, England

According to a Business Mirror article, Asean members of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have presented their action plans for their maritime industries at the Second High-Level Regional Meeting on Marine Environment Protection of the Southeast Asian Seas (MEPSEAS) in Manila on August 27.

Environment Protection Initiatives

In a news statement given before the meeting, the Maritime Industry...

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Algorithm Detects Climate-Altering Ship Tracks from Satellite Data

Ship tracks over the Pacific Ocean made visible by the clouds that form around the particles in a ship’s exhaust
  • Researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm to pinpoint ship tracks automatically in satellite imagery.
  • The researchers analyzed 1 year’s worth of nighttime observations obtained by the MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite.
  • Ship tracks look darker than regular clouds in the mid-wave infrared, they compared the difference between the two channels and looked for...

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Maritime Industry Plans To Sail into a Climate-Challenged Future

  • Wärtsilä has launched ‘An Oceanic Awakening’ to rally the maritime industry into action and to help accelerate the adoption of environmentally friendly marine technology.
  • IMO has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the total shipping fleet by at least 50 percent by 2050 from 2008 levels.
  • Around 70 percent reductions on the vessel level are required to enable a 50 percent fleet-level emission cut, the combined emissions of all ships in the fleet.
  • Solutions are explored for...

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How Ship Recycling is Helping the Planet?

According to a Lloyd’s Register article, doing away with the dangerous hazardous process of ship dismantling and recycling ships offers a viable solution

Here we are going to discuss how ship recycling is saving the planet.

Dismantling Ships- a Hazard?

Dismantling ships is widely thought of as one of the most dangerous professions in the world, both for workers and the environment, with high levels of fatalities, injuries and work-related illnesses stemming mainly from hazardous materials on...

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Zero-Emission Solution for Shipping at the Sustainable Energy Week

  • EU Sustainable Energy Week 2019 saw an effort to bring together different key players in the shipping sector to present their work and developments which pave the way for zero emission shipping.
  • The speakers presented and discussed under two panels – short sea shipping and how to decarbonise sea shipping.

Bellona summarizes the key points from the Sustainable Energy Week under the categories, short sea shipping and decarbonizing sea shipping, in their website.

Can Shipping be zero-emission?

Bello...

http://mfame.guru/zero-emission-solution-for-shipping-at-the-sustainable-energy-week/

What’s Bothering the Pacific? Climate Change Says the IMO Chief

According to IMO Chief, Kitack Lim, the main threat to the Pacific region is climate change, says an article published in Xinhua.net

Climate Change Action Plan Collaborations

The IMO chief said that after high level collaborations, the IMO adopted a first comprehensive and initial strategy on how to tackle climate change issues, which began in April last year.

“Now we are working on what kind of action plan should be taken on the initial strategies,” he said.

Reducing GHG Emission

Speaking at the...

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Carbon Neutrality by 2050? Is Maersk Betting Too Much?

The Dawn Of Low-Carbon Shipping

In a major development, the world’s largest container shipping company, Maersk has announced an astonishing goal that vows to send goods (everything from electronics to soybeans to sneakers) around the world with zero carbon emissions by the year 2025, says an article published in National Public Radio.

Inapt business decision?

The environmental logic behind such a promise is straightforward: Shipping contributes substantially to global climate change.

But the business case is not as obvious.

The...

http://mfame.guru/carbon-neutrality-by-2050-is-maersk-betting-too-much/

Cruise Ships Emitting 10X More SOx

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An in-house study by environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) has found that the luxury cruise brands owned by Carnival Corporation & PLC emitted in 2017 in European seas alone 10 times more SOx than all of Europe’s 260+ million passenger vehicles, reports the Green Cargo Congress.

European Countries The Most Hit

Spain, Italy, Greece, France and Norway are the most exposed countries to cruise ship air pollution in Europe. Among the major cruise ports, Barcelona, Palma Mallorca and Venice...

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