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How the IMO proposes to decarbonise the supply chain
The International Maritime Organization is aiming to cut the carbon intensity of international shipping by 40%, by 2030, compared with 2008 levels, using a mixture of means set out in its energy efficiency regulations
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is the division of the United Nations (UN) that regulates shipping. The shipping industry is not directly regulated by the various international treaties that aim to tackle global warming at an international level. However, the IMO is committed to responding
to the growing climate crisis and to ensuring that the shipping industry contributes to the global
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reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Accordingly, in April 2018, at the 72nd session of the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), the IMO voluntarily adopted an initial strategy on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships setting out its plan for urgently reducing GHG emissions from shipping. The key ambitions of the initial strategy are to: • Reduce the carbon intensity of international
shipping, compared with 2008 levels, by 40%, by 2030;
• Increase that reduction to 70% by 2050; • Reduce GHG emissions from international shipping, again compared with 2008 levels, by at least 50%, by 2050; and
• Achieve zero GHG emissions as soon as possible within this century, ie by 2100.
The IMO is working to achieve these ambitions
by a mixture of means, including pre-existing energy efficiency measures and new measures applicable in the short, mid and long-term.
Pre-existing measures In 1973, the IMO adopted the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from
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