An anti-corruption, non-profit organisation Transparency International, is undertaking an assessment of International Maritime Organisation (IMO) governance, transparency and accountability performance.
A look inside
Transparency International closed a tender last week for a consultancy position on the project, due to start immediately and to run through 1 March 2018.
“By analysing IMO’s governance framework, the assessment report seeks to point to any potential governance policy and practices challenges and to provide clear recommendations for improvement and thereby supporting the development of an effective IMO strategy. In the longer term, these recommendations aim to make the IMO governance well equipped against different forms of corruption (including undue influence),” the tender document said.
The purpose of the report is to assess IMO’s governance framework “in order to contribute to the positive development and strengthening of the IMO to support effective achievement of its objectives in mitigating the ship impacts on climate change,” according to Transparency International.
IMO’s actions
IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) is set to convene in April 2018, and is expected to adopt a draft strategy in effect to the reduce greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping.
Controversy erupted among the IMO’s intersessional working group on greenhouse gas emissions (ISWG-GHG) in late October, shortly after the release of a provocative report from UK-based non-profit Influence Map, entitled Corporate capture of the IMO. They claimed that the International Chamber of Shipping, BIMCO and others had stymied the climate action from within IMO.
In response, industry groups dismissed the allegations and detailed the objectives they proposed, and is adopted as part of IMO strategy for greenhouse gas emissions reduction.
IMO’s strategy
The first is to maintain international shipping’s annual total CO2 emissions below 2008 levels, the second is to reduce average CO2 emissions per tonne-km by at least 50% by 2020, compared to 2008 levels and the third is to reduce international shipping’s total annual CO2 emissions by 2050 as compared to 2008 levels, “as a point on a continuing trajectory of CO2 emissions reduction”.
Greenhouse gas reduction measures in the draft were divided into short-, medium- and long-term measures by the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) along with corresponding deadlines for its adoption.
Short-term measures are those finalised and agreed by MEPC between 2018 and 2023, while the mid-term measures (between 2023-2030) and the long-term measures (after 2030) relate to reduction regulations.
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Source: Tanker Shipping
