The global shipping industry, represented at the United Nations Conference in Paris by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), has expressed full support for the global deal on climate change.
The shipping industry is committed to ambitious CO2 emissions reduction across the entire world merchant fleet. This, said the chamber, will best be guaranteed if further regulation continues to be led by the UN International Maritime Organisation (IMO).
Shipping is the lifeblood of the global economy, and the industry is far the most energy-efficient mode of commercial transport. So, the chamber said, shipping is therefore part of the solution to preventing climate change.
IMO data shows that shipping has already reduced total CO2 emissions by more than 10% since 2007.
The share of the world economy’s CO2 emissions from international shipping was just 2.2% in 2012 compared to 2.8% in 2007, while CO2 per tonne of cargo transported one kilometre by sea has fallen around 20% in the past ten years as a result of aggressive fuel-efficiency measures.
