Tag: Global shipping industry

• Monday, November 14th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Shipping industry addresses decarbonization goals: training of 800,000 seafarers required

  

  A new action plan, launched at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt by United Nations organizations, ship-owners and unions, sets out recommendations to up skill seafarers to meet shipping’s decarbonization goals.

• Thursday, April 12th 2018 - 08:42 UTC

  Global shipping industry discussing in London a cap to emissions

  

  Countries are meeting in an attempt to agree cuts to greenhouse gases from the global shipping industry, amid pressure on the sector to help tackle climate change. Shipping, like aviation, is not directly included in the Paris Agreement, the international deal on global warming which was secured in the French capital in 2015 and commits countries to avoiding “dangerous” climate change.