The United Nations organization responsible for international marine shipping today approved new emission reduction policies.
The United Nations organization responsible for international marine shipping today approved new emission reduction policies.
A new paper published in Earth’s Future highlights the need.
UBC researchers surveyed 149 marine shipping experts in 2021 and found they expect the sector to see a reduction of 30 to 40 per cent in the carbon intensity of shipping — a measure of the amount of CO2 emitted to ship cargo over a given distance — by 2030 compared with 2008 levels.
But they expect the sector won’t meet its net-zero goal for 2050, instead achieving about 40 to 75 per cent reductions from 2008 levels.
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