Shipping is one of the fastest growing sources of transport greenhouse gas emissions, and is also a major source of the air pollution that causes acid rain. Like aviation, the sector's international emissions were excluded from the 1997 Kyoto climate targets with responsibility instead handed to a UN global regulator, the IMO. T&E works, together with other members of the Clean Shipping Coalition, to reduce the air pollution and climate impacts of shipping globally and in Europe.
On 16 February 2012 the environment committee of the European Parliament voted on a proposal to limit the sulphur content in fuels used by ships in EU seas. Read our press release on the outcome of the vote, and our briefing on the issue.
