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Poulsson (ICS): the IMO could agree a plan of cut of the emissions of the shipping in 2018 and adopt a system in 2023
the objectives - it has specified - would have to answer also to the legitimate and valid worries of the nations developing
February 24, 2017
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) will be able to agree already within a 2018 plan of reduction of the emissions produced from the shipping. Taking part today to Bali, in Indonesia, to the "Ocean World promoted Summit" from the magazine "The Economist", the president of the shipowning association International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), Esben Poulsson, has expressed the conviction that "the IMO can adopt within a 2018 strategy ambitious correspondent to the spirit of the Agreement of Paris. However - it has specified Poulsson - the IMO needs to relatively at the best agree a year of reference of the produced emissions of co2 from the marine transport so as establishing some ambitiouses objectives in the long term in order to reduce drastically within the half of the century the total of the emissions of co2 of the field".
Poulsson has specified moreover that the ICS wishes that the IMO adopts objectives for the entire field of the shipping and not for single ships, in the same way in which the governments they have already accepted the relative engagements to the reduction of the carbon dioxide emissions for their national economies in the picture of the Agreement of Paris. Poulsson has remembered also that the IMO must also agree a system for the reduction of the emissions of the shipping and has emphasized that the association wishes that this system can become operating from 2023. This date of effectiveness of the system adopted from the IMO - it is necessary to find - could not however ask for the inclusion in 2023 of the marine transport in the system of exchange of emissions ETS of the European Union as the recent ballot of the European Parliament has been favorable to such inclusion if international the marine organization does not adopt an analogous system within 2021, proposed that the ICS has asked the States EU to reject ( on 15 February 2017).
Poulsson has asserted that, if the IMO had to decide to develop a system of Measures based on the market, the clean preference of the ICS is that based on fuel withdrawals of money.
In its Poulsson participation it has evidenced that any objective of the IMO, that can be sufficiently ambitious in order to allow with the shipping to respect the objective of the United Nations to limit the increase of global warming to two Celsius degrees, would have to be also realistic: "ambitiouses objectives of reduction of carbon dioxide - he has observed the president of the ICS - will be obtainable single with alternative fuel for use marine, than they still do not exist, even if we are very trusting that will be available in the not too distant future".
Poulsson has remembered that an extended alternative fuel availability as the fuel hydrogen or cells is not previewed in order at least others 20 or 30 years and has emphasized that the total emissions of co2 of the shipping already are reduced of beyond 10% between 2007 and 2012. "However - it has emphasized - the projections of increase of the commercial exchanges, on which the field of the shipping it does not have some control, suggest that, because of the increase of the population and the improvement of the standard of living world-wise, the drastic reductions of the total emissions of co2 of the field will be difficult to reach in the near future until that the fuel for marine use alternative will not extensively become available".
"Meantime - it has concluded Poulsson - the ICS considers that all the objectives of reduction of co2 agreed the IMO must answer also to the legitimate and valid worries of the nations developing about the potential impact on the commerce and the sustainable development. According to the United Nations - it has evidenced - 60% of the commercial exchanges for marine way serve the nations developing".
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