the ICS restates that the only road in order to reach to a solution for the reduction of the emissions of the shipping passes through the IMO



The unanimous agreement on the reduction of polluting emissions reached saturday dalle195 nations that have participated to the conference on the climate of Paris is received with favor from the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the main world-wide association of the shipowning field and the marine transports. The ICS has explained that, in spite of the absence of an explicit reference to the shipping, the message launch from governments of the world is clear: "I am sure - the general secretary of the shipowning association has explained, Peter Hinchliffe - than now the Member States Maritime of the International Organization (IMO) will proceed with new overhong to help the field to achieve an always greater reduction of the emissions of co2 while the world moves towards the decarbonizzazione total within the end of the century".

The shipowning association has specified that from part its, in the immediate one, will engage itself to face to bottom the topic in center IMO, near which specific important meeting would have to be started from the next April with the objective to agree a reduction of the emissions of co2 for the marine transport. The ICS, than many times over is pronounced in favor of total initiatives in matter of reduction of the produced polluting emissions from the ships and has manifested hard contrarietà regarding measures adopted unilaterally from some nations, has confirmed that it will speed up the IMO to set up a total system of collection of the data of the produced emissions of co2 from the ships, system that the ICS wishes that it is profitable obligatory in the short possible time and before the IMO assumes decisions on the necessity to introduce ulterior actions, as - it has specified the association - the development of measures based on the market.

According to the ICS, "consisting reductions of the produced emissions of co2 from the marine transport could be insured only if an ulterior regulation will continue to being defined under the guide of the IMO".

Moreover, observing that "it is encouraging that, as a result of the agreement of Paris, nations developing as China and India has now accepted the responsibility to hand in hand reduce their emissions with the developed economies", the shipowning association it has found that "however the agreement of Paris conserve still the principle of "differentiation", based on which different deliveries are able to offer to various levels of engagement in reducing the emissions of co2".

"the co2 - Hinchliffe has restated - is a total problem and the shipping it is a total industry. The IMO is the only forum that can hold account of the principle of "differentiation" of the United Nations and meanwhile to demand that all the ships adopt the same measures of reduction of co2, independently from their State of flag. An unilateral or regional regulation - it has emphasized Hinchliffe - would be disastrous for the shipping and would be disastrous to the aims of a total reduction of co2 since the IMO is already helping the shipping to achieve substantial reductions of co2 to total level".

Remembering that at the beginning of the negotiations the ICS hoped that in the agreement of Paris was introduced an acknowledgment of the importance of the International Maritime Organization in continuing to develop to ulterior measures of reduction of the emissions co2 applicable to all the ships that operate international services, Hinchliffe has evidenced that all it is not lost and that it is still possible to agree a compromise for the shipping: "no text - the general secretary of the ICS has explained - is probably preferable to some which uttered words of goodwill at the end of the conference, than little people they have comprised and that effectively they could have remarkablly complicated the fulfillment of ulterior progresses near the IMO. The Member States of the IMO - it has emphasized Hinchliffe - are the same nations that were anticipate to Paris, but with civil employees who have a deep level of acquaintances in marine field. The intense job near the IMO - it has concluded - will continue with the full support of the entire industry of the marine transport".