Global shipping prepares for carbon-neutral future

Expectations run high for the next gathering of the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC). At the April meetings, IMO Member States are set to adopt an initial strategy on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions...

Expectations run high for the next gathering of the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC). At the April meetings, IMO Member States are set to adopt an initial strategy on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from shipping. Global shipping organisations, led by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), have prepared the ground during previous MEPC sessions and intersessional working groups by setting out a vision of zero CO2 emissions from shipping in the second half of the century. At the WPSP launch event, Emanuele Grimaldi, Managing Director of Grimaldi Group will join Beatriz Yordi, Director European and International Carbon Markets at the European Commission, Hilde Luystermans, Chair of the Ethics Committee at Total and Johan Castwall, CEO of Ports of Stockholm for a roundtable discussion on carbon-neutral shipping and ways in which ports can facilitate the energy transition.