The compromise to align any EU action with the IMO timeline is a part of the first reading agreement on the review of the EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) Directive.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe IMO is by far the right place to introduce a target and measures for shipping emissions. We need global action but we need it on time,\u201d said Isabelle Ryckbost, ESPO\u2019s Secretary General.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a sense of urgency in order for the sector to contribute to the Paris objective to keep the increase of global temperature well below two degrees. The regular reporting should also help the EU and its Member States to sound the alarm if insufficient progress is made.\u201d<\/p>\n
Port sector<\/strong><\/p>\n The EU and national climate measures that are currently being developed to implement the Paris Agreement, will oblige ports to reduce the carbon footprint of their land-based activities.<\/p>\n Ms Ryckbost said that the environmental reputation of the maritime and port sector is at stake. Moreover, ports, coastal cities and their local communities are amongst the most vulnerable to extreme weather conditions resulting from global warming.<\/p>\n ESPO believes that the IMO needs to strengthen its efforts and submit an initial reduction target to the stock-take process of the Paris Agreement in 2018, accompanied by short-term measures.<\/p>\n By 2023 it says, IMO should introduce the necessary target and measures to bend down the CO2 emissions curve.<\/p>\n The ETS agreement is subject to a formal approval by Council\u2019s COREPER and the plenary of the European Parliament.<\/p>\n Keep informed on global solutions on CO2 emissions from shipping with GreenPort Congress America.<\/p>\n For more information on participating in the GreenPort Congress 2018, visit our website http:\/\/www.greenport.com\/congressamerica<\/a> and please contact<\/p>\n For America<\/strong> – Lucy Clifford<\/strong> – Head of Sales \u2013 America \u2013 Tel 001 (410) 212 8723- email lclifford@mercatormedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n The Events team for Europe and the rest of the World is on +44 1329 825335 or email congress@g<\/strong><\/a>reenport.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ESPO says it welcomes the agreement made between the European Parliament and Council setting a deadline for a global solution on CO2 emissions from shipping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-11315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-initiatives-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11317,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions\/11317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11315"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=11315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}