COP22: Pledges for Action, Renewable Energy Uptake
COP22: Pledges for Action, Renewable Energy Uptake
IMO’s Climate Change Mandate
IMO’s Climate Change Mandat An audience of lawyers and academics have heard that the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) gives a clear mandate for IMO to prevent, reduce and control pollution of the marine environment from…
Carbon is not the Enemy
Carbon has a bad name. The 2015 Paris climate agreement calls for a balance between carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere and to earthbound carbon sinks1. Climate Neutral Now, a United Nations initiative, encourages businesses and individuals to voluntarily measure,…
Oceans Protection Plan
Canada has the world’s longest coastline, and our water is one of our most important resources. Canadians across the country rely on transportation to go about their everyday life or to deliver products to market in a safe and responsible…
Port State Control to Target Sulfur Compliance
The two major port State control regimes, Paris MoU and Tokyo MoU, will increase focus on the sulfur limit regulations after reaching an agreement to carry out a Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) in 2018 focusing on air pollution from ships...Continue…
ICS: Shipping Wants Climate Commitments by 2018
At the COP22 conference in Morocco, the International Chamber of Shipping's director of policy said that industry wants to see climate change commitments made at IMO by 2018, with an enforcement mechanism to follow after...Continue Reading Here.
First U.K. Assessment of Underwater Noise
Underwater noise around the U.K. has been analyzed for the first time finding that many sites were exposed to persistent noise from shipping traffic. In addition to shipping noise, the team also identified noise from onshore industrial activities, fishing and acoustic…
Healthcare Connections
Maritime broadband company KVH Industries recently stated that India will have 500 million Internet users by 2017 and the Philippines has the fastest growing Internet population in the world, up more than six-fold in the last five years. Health providers…
IMO Says it is Well-Placed to Regulate Shipping’s CO2
At COP22, IMO maintains that it is "the appropriate international body" for addressing shipping's carbon emissionsby MarEx 11/07/2016 From November 7-18, delegates from nearly 200 nations will be in Marrakech for the COP22 climate conference, the follow-up to the landmark…