6PAC+ Alliance Advocates for Ambition and Equity

[Majuro, Wednesday, 8 January 2025] – The 6PAC+ Alliance, a coalition of like-minded high-ambition Pacific, Caribbean and African Island nations, continues to push for watertight measures to deliver the International Maritime Organization (IMO) 2023 GHG Strategy in full. At the core of our proposals is a call to establish a GHG levy as the centerpiece of mid-term measures. These measures are designed to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping by 2050, with ambitious intermediate targets for 2030 and 2040 while ensuring a just and equitable transition, one that leaves no State and no seafarer behind.

The 6PAC+ submissions come at a critical juncture in international maritime decarbonization negotiations. The IMO must reach agreement on the basket of measures to implement its 2023 Strategy for decarbonising shipping in April 2025 and the measures need to be operational no later than 2027 to stay on track for a 1.5 degree-aligned pathway.

Download a copy of the press release here.

Picture: (left to right) the Special Envoy Ralph Regenvanu – Vanuatu; Hon. Minister Simon Kofe – Tuvalu; Hon. Minister Manasseh Maelanga – Solomon Islands; IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez; Hon. Minister Hilton Kendall – Marshall Islands; and Hon. Minister Antony Derjacques – Seychelles (Picture date: 2-10-2024).