Member states of the International Maritime Organization have voted in favour of a global pricing system to help curb maritime carbon emissions, the UN shipping body announced Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From 2028, all ships will be required to use a less carbon-intensive fuel mix or face financial penalties, the IMO said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The carbon pricing measure must now be formally adopted at an IMO assembly in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A majority of members \u2014 63 states \u2014 voted for the carbon pricing system, including the European Union, Brazil, China, India and Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sixteen states voted against the measure, including major oil producers Saudi Arabia, Russia and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pacific Island states abstained from the vote, deeming the proposals insufficient to meet decarbonisation goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The United States did not participate in the vote, with a wave of environmental rollbacks by President Donald Trump, including carbon limits on power plants, tailpipe emissions standards and protections for waterways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The agreement follows a week of negotiations in London to decide which mechanism to adopt to reach carbon neutrality in shipping by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those who do not meet the guidelines will have to pay annually for every tonne of greenhouse gas emissions that exceeds the targets set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The IMO said the funds raised will be used to \u201creward\u201d zero or near-zero greenhouse gas emissions technologies and to financially support developing countries to transition to lower-emissions shipping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013 \u2018Groundbreaking moment\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Island nations in the Pacific and Caribbean, particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, supported a more ambitious universal carbon levy on maritime transport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe cannot support an outcome that does not live up to the agreed strategy,\u201d the Solomon Islands\u2019 minister of infrastructure development, Manasseh Maelanga, said after the nation abstained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A French source told AFP that \u201cthe ambition is not what we had hoped for in terms of trajectory but it is greater than what already exists within the European framework\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shipping accounts for nearly three percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the IMO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is a groundbreaking moment for the shipping industry, which should signal a turning of the tide on greenhouse gases from global shipping,\u201d Mark Lutes, senior advisor at the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHowever, key aspects of this agreement fall short of what is needed and risk blowing the transition off course,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The International Chamber of Shipping, representing shipowners and operators, welcomed the fact \u201cthat governments have understood the need to catalyse and support investment in zero emission fuels\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However it expressed concern \u201cthat this may not yet go far enough in providing the necessary certainty\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is a framework which we can build upon,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Constance Dijkstra, a policy manager at the Transport & Environment lobby group said a switch to biofuels was not the answer, describing the mass production of such energy as \u201cvery worrying for deforestation\u201d, even if Brazil disagrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IMO member countries have agreed also to create a \u201ccontrol area\u201d in the northeast Atlantic, which limits the use of the most polluting marine fuels around the coasts of Western Europe, Iceland and Greenland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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