Letter to Hedegaard: EU should take the lead to cut GHG emissions from shipping
The EU should pave the way for a global action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.
Publications
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.
Smarter steaming ahead
Briefing on a report by CE Delft studying the impacts of vessel speed on emissions, technical constraints and other experiences with regard to slow steaming and current speed regulations.
Regulated Slow Steaming in Maritime Transport: An Assessment of Options, Costs and Benefits
This report studies the impacts of vessel speed on emissions, technical constraints and other experiences with regard to slow steaming and current speed regulations. Moreover, it analyses the legal feasibility of speed limits and feasibility of implementation, possible policy designs and the associated social costs and benefits of speed limits.
Sulphur in marine fuels
On 16 February 2012 the environment committee of the European Parliament will vote on a proposal to limit the sulphur content in fuels used by ships in EU seas. This briefing gives an overview of the key issues at stake.
Air Pollution from Ships
This publication by AirClim, Seas At Risk, Bellona Foundation, North Sea Foundation, Transport & Environment and the European Environmental Bureau provides readers with the state of the art on air pollution from shipping and analyses the measures needed to significantly reduce it.
Cutting Sulphur Emissions from Marine Fuel
The IMO's Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for new ships
Questions and answers on the IMO's EEDI: what it does, how it works and what its significance is. Published to coincide with a critical vote at the IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee in London, July 2011.
Letter to the Hungarian presidency: Bunker fuels should be put back on the UNFCCC agenda
Letter to the Hungarian presidency to urge the EU to make all possible effort to put aviation and shipping emissions (emissions bunker fuels) back on the agenda of the UNFCCC meeting in Bangkok.
EEB and CSC letter to the Hungarian EU Presidency on MARPOL VI and EEDI
Letter from the European Environmental Bureau and the Clean Shipping Coalition to the Hungarian Presidency of the EU on International Maritime Organization (IMO) measures to cut greenhouse gases from ships.
Letter to the Environment Commissioner on delaying of air quality legislation
Letter to the Environment Commissioner, Janez Potocnik, on the repeated EC postponement of legislation in the field of air pollution.