Members: Correspondence

(asked on 27th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to respond to the letter from the Chairman of Committee on Climate Change Government, Of 20 September 2019 on International aviation and shipping and net zero.


Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 4th February 2020

Alongside our upcoming Transport Decarbonisation Plan, we will shortly bring forward a consultation on aviation and climate change. It is critical that we consider how aviation can play its part in delivering our net zero ambitions, so that the aviation sector can continue to thrive.

International shipping is unique in being the only global sector with a volumetric emissions reduction target, as set out in the International Maritime Organization’s Initial GHG Strategy. The UK was a leading voice in the negotiation of this Strategy, and our primary focus regarding international shipping emissions is now to agree through the IMO the short-, medium- and long-term measures required to reach the targets. Government will invite further views on its domestic actions to reduce shipping emissions through the publication later this year of a Call for Evidence on non-tax incentives to support the transition to zero emission shipping.

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