ICS, the shipping are not a cow to milk



The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) does not beat about the bush exemplifying which it would have to be the poured economic contribution from the companies of the field that it represents in the cases of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the multilateral bottom created in the within of the Convention picture of the United Nations on climatic changes (UNFCCC) with the objective to allow with the nations developing to mitigate the impact of the climatic changes. The industry of the shipping - the shipowning association clarifies international - "is not a cow to milk".

The ICS evidences that the field of the marine transports transports about 90% of the world-wide commerce and produces alone 2.2% about of the total of the total emissions of gas greenhouse (given of 2012), percentage that among other things is diminished considerably during the last few years being is pairs to 2.8% in 2007.

In occasion of the Conference of the United Nations on the climate, than it is opened today to Lima, the association emphasizes as the shipping it is therefore on the good road in order to reduce the emissions of beyond 20% within 2020 (regarding 2005) and in order achieving ulterior reductions successively. The section of the marine transports - the ICS finds - is the only industrial segment that is already object of a binding total agreement in order to reduce own emissions of co2 through technical and operating measures agreed with the full support of the field from its total regolator, that is the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Moreover - the ICS remembers - the IMO is developing ulterior measures in order to reduce the produced emissions of co2 from the shipping and - the association emphasizes - "the Conference of the United Nations must maintain to its support to the IMO which main forum in order to face the topic of the emissions of the marine transports, than it cannot be attributed to single national economies".

Therefore, second the ICS, any decision, as for example if to characterize for shipping the measures based on the market that could be connected to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), would have to be of competence of the Member States of the IMO. "the IMO - the association explains - will be in the better position in order to develop an approach that can conciliate the principle of "Responsibility common but differentiated (CBDR) "of the UNFCCC, based on which the Developing countries is dealt in various way, with the need for all the ships, to prescind from the flag, of being dealt in uniform way".

Restating that "the shipping it is a total industry that demands norms in matter of emissions of co2 to on a global basis apply to all the ships", the association finds that, "besides to prevent the distortion of the market in this field totally globalizzato, this is necessary in order to avoid the risk of offshoring of the activities (carbon leakage) from the moment that about 35% of the world-wide fleet it is only recorded near the developed nations that they are covered by engagements of reduction of the emissions in the within of the protocol of Kyoto on the prevention of the climatic changes. The position of the field of the marine transports - specific the ICS - remains that any contribution of the shipping to the Green Climate Fund must reflect the modest contribution of the field to the total of the total emissions of co2. The ICS - the association concludes - is opposed firmly to any hypothesis that the field of the marine transports must collectively pay tens of billions of dollars every year". For the ICS, exactly, the shipping it is not a cow to milk.