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the International Bunker Industry prompt Association the IMO to adopt the strategy in order to reduce the emissions of the shipping proposed from the ICS
According to the association draft of a good compromise
May 24, 2017
The International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA), the association that represents the suppliers and the users of fuel to marine use, considers that the strategy in order to reduce the gas emissions to produced greenhouse effect from the Maritime ships that are proposed last week to the International Organization (IMO) from the shipowning association international International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and from other organizations of the field of the marine transport it constitutes "a good compromise".
The ICS has proposed that the IMO adopts three objectives, that is the maintenance of the emissions produced carbon dioxide anniversaries from the shipping beneath of the level of 2008, the reduction pairs at least to 50% within 2050 regarding the level of the 2008 of the emissions of co2 for ton-km which medium of international the marine transport and reduction within 2050 regarding 2008 of the annual total emissions produced of co2 from shipping of a percentage agreed which the point of reference on a continuous distance of reduction of the emissions of co2.
The ICS has proposed that the IMO adopts these objectives in the within of own initial strategy of reduction of the emissions of co2 to agree in 2018, strategy that will be reexamined in 2023 when the IMO must have given sufficient obtained from the collection of obligatory character of data on the fuel consumption oil of the ships that the IMO has decided to put into effect at the end last year and that it will be started in 2019.
According to the IBIA, the proposal of the ICS and the other organizations of the shipping "much good is studied and would allow with the IMO to communicate in a 2018 to the Conference of the Parties initial level of objectives of the entire field of the marine transport, online with the Nationally defined Determined Contributions of the nations", as expected from the agreements on the climatic changes.
"Moreover - it has found the IBIA - it is online with the procedure in three phases already adopted from the IMO that it begins with the collection of the data and is continuation from an analysis of the data and, therefore, by the assumption of political decisions based on the data. This means - it has emphasized the association - than any adopted initial strategy from the IMO in 2018 will be resumption under investigation as they will be available additional information".
Moreover the IBIA has evidenced that, for how much the objectives proposed from the International Chamber of Shipping are ambitions, "however they can be approachable in consideration of the rhythm with which nowadays the innovations are ollowed in order to improve the efficiency".
The IBIA has specified of being aware that the impact of this strategy on the supplier fuel companies to marine use will determine an inactivity of the volumes of sales of bunker to oil base to which it will follow unavoidably a decrease of the sales. "Now as now - he has explained the association - the bunker suppliers more are worried for the expiration of 2020", year from which will take effect the limit of the sulfur tenor pairs of 0.50% in mass for fuel to marine use.
"As one agrees to manage - the IBIA has wondered - the transition from a shipping total that uses fuel oil to elevated sulfur tenor above all to fuel with not advanced sulfur to 0.50% from the beginning of 2020, with the exception of that quota total fleet that, before this expiration, will have installed approved of technology of discouragement of the emissions? In this case - it has observed the association - there is a parallel with the issue of the gas emissions to greenhouse effect as the limit of 0.50% of sulfur will carry the innovation to produce consistent fuel to contained costs and will determine an acceleration of the technological solutions. The necessity to reduce the carbon emissions of the shipping - it has concluded the IBIA - will stimulate the innovation, initially of the technology that improves energy efficiency and therefore of that which it reduces the carbon emissions to go to the energetic sources to zero carbon emissions".
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