{"id":4799,"date":"2011-11-22T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2011\/11\/22\/imo-emission-focus\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:42:03","slug":"imo-emission-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2011\/11\/22\/imo-emission-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"IMO emission focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his opening address to the assembly, Mr Mitropoulos spoke about efforts to establish a regulatory regime to control and reduce ship emissions and emphasised the need for governments, the shipping industry and environmental groups to work together &#8211; \u201cA difficult task from both a conceptual and a technical perspective\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, MARPOL Annex VI has still established the first ever mandatory global greenhouse gases reduction regime for an international industry sector this year.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;The fact, however, that representatives of a large number of Governments were able to reach decisions on complicated issues of great importance to the environment, not only bears testimony to the responsible manner with which IMO addresses its respective mandate, but also to the great results that can be achieved when States, with the same concerns and determination to produce meaningful solutions to global issues, work together&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>IMO are in a strong position for the next round of UN consultations on climate change opening next week in Durban. The orgaiisation wants to assure the international community that it is best positioned to play a leadership role in addressing greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMO secretary general, Efthimios E.Mitropoulos told delegates at the 27th IMO assembly this week that ship emissions has been a central theme of the organisation\u2019s work this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products-services-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4801,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions\/4801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}