The Roadmap adopted by the IMO in 2016 outlines when and how the IMO’s Strategy to reduce emissions from ships is to be developed through a series of meetings of the Intersessional Working Group on GHG emissions reduction (ISWG GHG), the first two having being held in 2017 and the third scheduled in April 2018 prior to MEPC 72 in the following week which will adopt the initial Strategy. The final Strategy is due to be adopted in 2023.