Almost 200 shipping companies said on Monday that they want the world’s largest maritime nations to adopt regulations with the first global fee for greenhouse gases to reduce their sector emissions.
The Alliance of the Nuelini Coalition, the companies, governments and intergovernmental organizations, requests that the Member States of the International Maritime Member States be supported by switching to green shipping, including a tax when they meet in London next month. The statement was only shared with the Associated Press.
“Given the importance of a political decision made, we believe it is important that the industrial votes supporting this adoption,” said Jesse Fahnestock on Monday, who leads decarbonization work in the World Maritime Forum. The forum controls zero coalition.
The Trump administration unequivocally rejects the proposal and threatened to take revenge if the nations support it by determining the basis for the main climate agreement. The US believes that the proposed regulatory system “is actually a global carbon tax collected by an unanswered UN organization,” said US state, commercial, energy and transport secretaries last month.
However, US -based shipping companies have confirmed this. The American Transport Chamber wants one global system, not a few regional systems that can double the ships for their emissions, depending on the route, said the palace president Emeritus Kathy Metcalf.
The emissions have increased in the last decade to about 3% of the world in the last decade, as ships have become larger by delivering more cargo during the trip and using a huge amount of fossil fuel. The TJO, regulating international shipping, set a goal that the sector around 2050 The discharge of the net greenhouse gases reached and undertook to ensure that the fuel with a zero or almost zero emissions is more widely used.
April Member States have agreed on the content of the regulatory system to determine the minimum fee for each tonne of greenhouse gas emitted above certain thresholds, and sets the sea fuel standard for cleaner fuel phases. IOs seek consensus in decision -making, but had to vote in this case. The US was particularly not.
Nations now have to decide whether the regulations will take effect in 2027.
If the nations do not agree, the decoration of shipping will be further delayed and “the probability of the sector will play the right and correct role in the fight to make global heating lower than dangerous levels, almost certainly lost,” said Delaine McCullough, Clean Shipping Coalition and Ocean Conservancy.
US secretaries said in their statement that “colleagues TJO members should be noticed”, the US “hesitant to take revenge or explore remedies for our citizens,” if they do not support the US, against the action. They said the ships would have to pay taxes for not meeting the “outcomes of non -achieved fuel standards and emissions” by increasing costs and fuel standards “would be convenient to China”. China is a leader in creating and making cleaner fuel for shipping.
Although the US opposition and pressure cannot be taken for granted, it still seems that most countries are currently supporting regulations, Faig Abbasov from transport and environment, a non -governmental organization in Brussels. Abbasov said April. The agreement reached was not ambitious enough, but it is an opportunity to start the decarbonization of the sector and can be strengthened.
Shipping companies want the rules because it gives them the certainty needed to invest confidently in cleaner technologies, such as fuel that is an alternative to fossil fuel and ships on them. In addition to going to the Zero Coalition, the International Shipping House, which accounts for more than 80% of the world’s merchant fleet, is in favor of adoption when nations meet at IMO headquarters in London on October 14-17.
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AP writer Sibi Arasu contributed to this report.
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