Shipping and Climate Change

A critical starting point Pollution from Ships (MARPOL), as the leading will be the determination of the industry’s fair IMO instrument on prevention of marine pollution, contribution to the goals of the Paris Agreement can be expected to continue to play a major role, and the overall climate mitigation effort expected the future introduction of an MBM will require from the sector. [...] The package of rules investments in energy-producing and consuming required to implement the Kyoto Protocol was technologies, and the flexibility mechanisms then formally adopted at the first meeting of the reflected the parties’ recognition that there would parties to the protocol in Montreal in 2005. [...] On the one hand, it built ownership of the vessel, allocation to the state of on a long tradition among MEAs to facilitate origin or destination of the vessel, and allocation compliance through capacity building, dialogue to the state of origin or destination of the cargo or and transparency. [...] It is unclear at implementation of their NDCs, in combination this point whether the transparency rules will with the global stocktake and the compliance include any obligation to report on emissions system, are at the heart of the process put in place from the international shipping sector beyond under the Paris Agreement to ensure progression of individual and collective ambition toward the long [...] Because the sectoral emission reduction targets for Paris Agreement is silent on the efforts of the IMO, international aviation and maritime the extent to which the UN climate regime can be transport and on the need for all Parties taken to have endorsed the mandate of the IMO or to work through the International Civil to have delegated the issue to it remains uncertain.