OLeary and Brown 2018 The Legal Basis for IMO Climate Measures
This EDF/Sabin Center paper investigates the potential legal bases for the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to enact climate measures. It...
Airlines can count oil as ‘green’ under latest weakening of UN carbon scheme
Airlines will be able to declare the fossil fuels they burn to be green 'alternative fuels' under a UN scheme...
EU’S $250M MARINE LNG SPENDING SPREE IS A CLIMATE DEAD END
A new study released by UMAS estimates that the EU has, to date, directly spent $250 million on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)...
ZERO EMISSION VESSELS: ‘WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE?’ ASKS SUSTAINABLE SHIPPING INITIATIVE REVISITING THE LR & UMAS REPORT
Multiple fuel options are on the table to reach zero emissions but all have their associated issues which need to...
Ferguson Marine to Build World’s First Renewables-Powered Hydrogen Ferry
Port-Glasgow-based shipyard Ferguson Marine is to develop the world’s first renewable-powered hydrogen ferry – HySeas III. As informed, the shipyard...
Warming of 2C ‘substantially’ more harmful than 1.5C – draft UN report
By Karl Mathiesen, Megan Darby and Soila Apparicio. A leaked draft of a major UN climate change report shows growing certainty that 2C, once...
London ferries produce same pollution as hundreds of buses and trucks – but are not policed by tough new emission regulations
Ferries used by commuters and tourists in the centre of London are spewing out pollution equivalent to hundreds of buses and trucks...
EU charting wrong course on LNG in shipping, study warns
EXCLUSIVE / Europe has little to gain from trying to decarbonise the unwieldy shipping sector with liquefied natural gas (LNG),...
Vanuatu sailors seek government help over grievances
Vanuatu's acting Minister of Infrastructure and Public Utiliies, Ham Lini, has told the Vanuatu Seafarers Association the government will do...
Australian drones to monitor South China Sea
Australia will spend $A7billion on drones that can be airborne for more than a day and hunt enemy submarines, sharing...
Container line profits this year will be wiped out by rising fuel and charter prices
A leading shipping analyst has drastically cut its 2018 ocean carrier profitability forecast from $5bn to “breakeven at best”. In a...
Graphics of Marshall Islands sea level rise ‘brought EU ministers to tears’
Striking sea level rise images have sent shockwaves through the Marshallese community and touched European ministers, says minister David Paul...