A group of environmental organisations have called for the International Maritime Organization (IMO)’s secretary general Kitack Lim to accelerate its greenhouse gas (GHG) strategy to meet the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement.
A letter from organisations including the Clean Shipping Coalition, the Environmental Defence Fund and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), calls for Lim to put policies in place to ensure that decarbonisation happens on a time-frame consistent with keeping the global temperature rise below 1.5°C.
They stated: “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on 1.5°C has shown that the decarbonisation of the fleet needs to be complete before 2050 and the level of ambition in the IMO’s GHG strategy must be adjusted accordingly.”
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