Shipping: Exhaust Emissions

(asked on 12th April 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress the UK has made towards meeting the 2018 International Maritime Organisation target of halving shipping emissions by 2050.


Answered by
Robert Courts Portrait
Robert Courts
Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
This question was answered on 20th April 2021

Since the agreement of the Initial IMO Strategy in 2018, the UK has continued to work with the IMO to develop and agree policy measures to drive emissions reduction in the sector. In 2019 the UK became the first IMO Member State to publish a National Action Plan, the Clean Maritime Plan, and the plan’s commitments have now largely been implemented. In March 2021 the UK launched the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition to support the development of clean maritime technology. Further action is needed both internationally and domestically, and the upcoming Transport Decarbonisation Plan will set out plans to deliver ambitious emissions reduction in maritime and across all modes of transport.

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