The United States has withdrawn from climatic talks to the international maritime organization in London this week.
The countries of the United Nations Agence for the United Nations have entered into an agreement on a global standard of fuel emissions for the maritime sector, which will impose programs on ships that violate it and reward shipping ships.
The United States has withdrawn from climatic talks to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London this week, urging other countries to do the same and threatening to impose “reciprocal measures” against all the costs billed on American ships.
Despite this, other nations have approved CO2 cutting measures to help reach the objective of the OMI to reduce net emissions of international delivery by 20% by 2030 and eliminate them by 2050.
The majority of OMI countries voted on Friday to approve a program which, from 2028, will invoice the ships a penalty of $ 380 per metric tonne on each additional ton of equivalent CO2, they emit above a fixed emission threshold, plus a penalty of $ 100 per tonne on the programs higher than a more strict emission limit.
The agreement is expected to generate up to $ 40 billion in 2030 fees, some of which will make the fuels with expensive zero emission more affordable.
The talks have exposed deep fruits between governments on the speed with which to push the maritime sector to reduce its environmental effect.
A stronger carbon levy proposal on all shipping emissions, supported by the Pacific countries vulnerable to the climate – which abstained during the Friday vote – as well as the European Union and the United Kingdom, were abandoned after the opposition of several countries, including China, Brazil and Saudi Arabia, said delegates to the Reuters press agency.
Vanuatu climate minister Ralph Regenvanu said that the countries had “not supported a set of measures that would have put the maritime transport industry on a 1.5 ° C”.
Industry group The International Delivery Chamber welcomed the agreement, which, according to him, would require a huge increase in these fuels.
“We are happy that governments have understood the need to catalyze and support investment in zero emission fuels,” ICS said in a statement.
In 2030, the main issue of emissions will force ships to reduce the intensity of emissions from their fuel by 8% compared to a reference base in 2008, while the stricter standard will require a reduction of 21%.
By 2035, the main standard will reduce fuel emissions by 30%, compared to 43% for the stricter standard.
Ships that reduce emissions below the stricter limit will be rewarded with credits that they can sell to non -compliant ships.
“This is a revolutionary moment for the maritime transport industry, which should point out a turning point on tide on greenhouse gases in global navigation,” said Mark Lutes, principal advisor to the Wildlife Fund for Nature, Mark Lutes.
“However, the key aspects of this agreement are not below what is necessary and risks blowing the transition out of course,” he added.
The carbon price measurement must now be officially adopted in an IMO assembly in October.
