More than 150 industry leaders and organizations have urged governments and global shipping industry leaders to commit to decarbonizing international shipping by 2050, reports Offshore Energy.
Call to Action initiative
The Call to Action initiative was developed by the Getting to Zero Coalition, a partnership between the Global Maritime Forum, the World Economic Forum, and Friends of Ocean Action.
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Signatories include members from the entire maritime ecosystem including shipping, chartering, finance, ports, and fuel production. The initiative will be delivered to world governments in November 2021, ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26).
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“Shipping must align with the Paris Agreement temperature goal and be run entirely on net-zero energy sources by 2050. The private sector is leading the way and taking concrete actions to make zero emission vessels and fuels the default choice by 2030, and decisive government action and enabling policy frameworks are needed now to reach our 2030 and 2050 ambitions,” industry leaders pointed out.
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The signatories for the Call to Action have urged governments to:
- Commit to decarbonizing international shipping by 2050;
- Support industrial scale zero emission shipping projects through national action;
- Deliver policy measures that will make zero emission shipping the default choice by 2030.
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Source: Offshore Energy
