Campaigners accuse IMO of further carbon inaction

Campaigners have criticised the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) decision not to finalise an initial strategy to address shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions until 2023.

Under proposals submitted to the IMO’s meeting in London on Friday, the emissions reduction strategy will be finalised in 2023, after a three-year project to capture ship-level fuel use data beginning in 2019.

According to a statement from environmental campaign group, Transport & Environment: “The IMO first established a work plan on greenhouse gases in 2003 but this week it decided to create a fresh process for yet more talks – betraying the Paris agreement’s call for urgent action to limit global warming at 1.5/2°C.”