With the growing momentum for the adoption of a global carbon levy on international shipping this year, the European Union’s proposal must go stronger on justice and equity.
CMW welcomes the proposed integration of the maritime sector into the UK Emissions Trading Scheme as of 2026.
This Carbon Market Watch policy briefing assesses and scores the various proposals of parties to the IMO to decarbonise the shipping industry
This Carbon Market Watch policy briefing assesses and scores the various proposals of parties to the IMO to decarbonise the shipping industry
This Carbon Market Watch policy briefing assesses and scores the various proposals of parties to the IMO to decarbonise the shipping industry
Based on a Carbon Market Watch position paper (CMW, 2021) on key principles and criteria that any market-based measure (MBM) agreed at IMO level needs to follow for it to be fair and effective in contributing to the decarbonisation of international shipping, CE Delft has elaborated on these principles and criteria for the development of the MTM tool.
Parties to the International Maritime Organisation are meeting in London to discuss various proposals to decarbonise the shipping sector. Carbon Market Watch gives our verdict over what’s on the table.
The EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is being expanded to cover shipping. But what does this involve and what does it mean for the maritime sector?
Green groups criticised the International Maritime Organisation’s failure to raise the shipping sector’s climate ambition sufficiently to ensure that this highly polluting sector navigates a course that is compatible with keeping global temperature increases within the 1.5°C limit set out in the Paris Agreement.
As the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) embarks next week on the latest round of talks on greenhouse gas emissions, civil society groups urge member states to agree to halve the carbon footprint of shipping by 2030 and eliminate it by 2050.
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