Environmental groups claim IMO fails to implement its own greenhouse gas reduction plan

Environmental groups have called out the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) new shipping emission proposals for violating the organisation’s own greenhouse gas strategy in three key ways.

The Transport & Environment organisation claimed that the impact of the decision at IMO’s intersessional working group on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ships will not cap, let alone reduce, shipping emissions on this decade.

Firstly, it claimed the J/5 proposal will fail to reduce emissions before 2023, will not peak emissions as soon as possible and will not set ship CO₂ emissions on a pathway consistent with the Paris Agreement goals.