Poulsson (ICS): the cut of 50% of the emissions of co2 of the shipping within 2050 is a objective indeed much ambitious



"The governments must become account of the enormity of that the IMO has agreed". He has emphasized today, taking part to Maritime Singapore to the Singapore Week, the president of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), Esben Poulsson, referring to the agreement reached in recent days near the International Maritime Organization, the agency of the United Nations that the objective has to promote the cooperation in marine field, to guarantee safety of navigation and the protection of the marine atmosphere, based on which the produced emissions of co2 from the shipping will have to be reduced of 50% within 2050(on 13 April 2018).

The president of the ICS, international organization that represents shipowners and operators of the shipping, has evidenced that this would have to discourage the adoption to regional level of initiatives for the cut of the emissions, approach to the always osteggiato problem from the shipowners for the effects distorted you of the competition that could generate in the fields harbour and marine. Poulsson has found that the total strategy adopted from the IMO in order to reduce produced gases progressively greenhouse from the shipping "would have to be more than sufficient in order to discourage which, mistaking, speeds up regional measures that would damage the total commercial exchanges seriously and would not be effective in helping the shipping to reduce ulteriorly its total emissions of co2".

"It is important - therefore it has observed Poulsson - than the governments recognize the enormity than agreed near the IMO. If the final objective is that of the zero emissions, a total cut of 50% within 2050 is a objective indeed much ambitious, in particular if account of the current perspectives of increase of the commercial exchanges holds".

"The industry of the shipping - it has continued the president of the ICS - deserves a great acknowledgment in order to have persuaded the Member States of the IMO to answer to the Agreement of Paris in so ambitious way". "Unjustly - it has added Poulsson - the industry of the shipping is often criticized much because it uses to stonewall. Instead this new agreement within the IMO it places absolutely in clearly that now the shipping it is by far more ahead regarding the remainder of the world-wide economy as for the level of own objectives".

About the modalities with which the shipping he will be able to achieve these objectives of reduction of the emissions, the president of the ICS has been said trusting that the new technologies, in particular in the field of the naval motoristica, will allow with the marine field to respect the objectives: "for being clear - it has specified Poulsson - if probably the liquified natural gas and the biocombustibili constitute a part of the solution, the objectives many ambitiouses that the IMO has fixed for the 2050 could be reached single with the development of systems of propulsion that do not produce emissions of co2".

Poulsson has restated the contrarietà of the ICS to that Measures based on the market are applied. The president of the shipowning organization has remembered that the fuel by far represents the more onerous cost for the shipowners and that previews that you increase in meaningful way because of the new limit on the sulfur tenor in the fixed fuel from the IMO that will take effect in 2020: "since the IMO is discussing about the better way in order to put into effect its strategy - Poulsson has explained - we would certainly prefer that he concentrated himself to us on ulterior technical measures for the reduction of the co2, not last promuovendo the fuel development to zero emissions. However if the IMO decided that sussiste the political necessity to develop a Measure based on the market - has emphasized Poulsson - the clean preference of the total industry would be that of a tax on the bunker fuel to correspond to a bottom of the IMO on the climate. If this tax had to be introduced, the deep ones would have to be used in order to support the search on new technologies to lowlands carbon emissions or in order to support the introduction of the new infrastructural net of bunkeraggio that will be necessary for the fuel supply to zero emissions".