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Shipping and Climate Change - International Law and Policy Considerations - SPECIAL REPORT

6 Sep 2018

by the first two meetings of the Intersessional The Paris Agreement provides the framework for the Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions adoption of national contributions determined at the from Ships (ISWG-GHG) in June and October 2017 national level,13 establishes the collective goals and for possible inclusion in the comprehensive IMO takes stock of progress toward the collective goals st. [...] 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. [...] 29 The implication of the reference to the IMO in article 2.2 has been the subject of considerable debate within the climate regime as well as the 27 There has been much criticism of the environmental integrity of the IMO. [...] 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. [...] In the territorial sea, ships to observe the broader duty to “comply they may adopt laws and regulations with respect with generally accepted international regulations, to the exercise of innocent passage, including for procedures and practices for the prevention, “the preservation of the environment of the coastal reduction and control of pollution from ships.”88 state and the prevention, reducti.
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106
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Canada