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Several governments are presenting the IMO with a proposal to decarbonise shipping, which is the one supported by shipping companies
Appreciating the initiative, BIMCO, CLIA, IMCA, Intercargo, Interferry, ICS, Intertanko, IPTA and WSC highlight the need for the project to be approved in November
March 10, 2021
The representatives of the nine maritime associations have therefore urged governments to support this proposal at the time of the next meeting of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the IMO, which is scheduled in the middle of the next June, in order to make it possible for it to be approved during the of the next MEETING of the MEPC scheduled for November in coinciding with the next Conference of the Parties on Change (COP26) to be held in Glasgow. BIMCO, CLIA, IMCA, Intercargo, Interferry, ICS, Intertanko, IPTA and WSC have highlighted the need to achieve this result because -- they pointed out -- it will otherwise 'almost impossible' to have the necessary share of zero-emission ships in service.
The nine associations reiterated that the decarbonisation of shipping can only take place with an acceleration of the significant importance of research and development activities given that there are still no zero-carbon technologies that can be applied on a large scale to large ocean vessels and it is therefore necessary that a research and development programme well-funded, which the shipping industry has agreed to funding within a global regulatory framework, is launched immediately under the supervision of the United Nations IMO.
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The representatives of the nine maritime associations have therefore urged governments to support this proposal at the time of the next meeting of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the IMO, which is scheduled in the middle of the next June, in order to make it possible for it to be approved during the of the next MEETING of the MEPC scheduled for November in coinciding with the next Conference of the Parties on Change (COP26) to be held in Glasgow. BIMCO, CLIA, IMCA, Intercargo, Interferry, ICS, Intertanko, IPTA and WSC have highlighted the need to achieve this result because -- they pointed out -- it will otherwise 'almost impossible' to have the necessary share of zero-emission ships in service.
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