More than 140 industry leaders and organisations representing the entire maritime value chain have signed the call for decisive government action to enable full decarbonisation of international shipping by 2050.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe challenges associated with this transition are huge, and we highly appreciate working together with likeminded partners,\u201d said Allard Castelein, CEO of the Port of Rotterdam Authority.<\/p>\n
Ports are well represented<\/strong><\/p>\n Signatories include the Port Authority of Valencia, Hamburg Port Authority, Northwest Seaport Alliance (Port of Seattle and Port of Tacoma), Port Esbjerg, Port of Amsterdam, Port of Antwerp, Port of Barcelona, Port of Gothenburg, Port of Kiel, Port of London Authority, Port of Rotterdam Authority, Port of Aarhus, Ports of Bremen (Bremen and Bremerhaven), PSA International, Solomon Islands Ports Authority, and Vancouver Fraser Port Authority. The International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) is a supporting organisation.<\/p>\n Signatories of the Call to Action for Shipping Decarbonization call on world leaders to:<\/p>\n Commit to decarbonising international shipping by 2050 and deliver a clear and equitable implementation plan to achieve this when adopting the IMO GHG Strategy in 2023.<\/p>\n Support industrial scale zero emission shipping projects through national action, for instance by setting clear decarbonization targets for domestic shipping and by providing incentives and support to first movers and broader deployment of zero emissions fuels and vessels.<\/p>\n Deliver policy measures that will make zero emission shipping the default choice by 2030, including meaningful market-based measures, taking effect by 2025 that can support the commercial deployment of zero emission vessels and fuels in international shipping.<\/p>\n The Call to Action for Shipping Decarbonisation has been developed by a multi-stakeholder taskforce convened by the Getting to Zero Coalition \u2013 a partnership between the Global Maritime Forum, the World Economic Forum, and Friends of Ocean Action.<\/p>\n The Call to Action will be delivered to world Governments in November 2021, in advance of COP26 in in Glasgow, Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sixteen ports and operators are backing a call to action to decarbonise shipping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1650","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\/1650","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=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}