Shipping: Exhaust Emissions

(asked on 4th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with representatives of the maritime sector on the level of funding required to decarbonise maritime.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 14th September 2020

My officials have regularly engaged with the UK maritime industry on this matter, particularly since the launch of the Clean Maritime Council, which was established in 2018 to ensure strong collaboration between Government, industry and academia on maritime decarbonisation. The Council underpinned the publication of the Clean Maritime Plan, which was published in July 2019 and made a number of recommendations relating to funding.

Key recommendations included the commitment by Government to funding a competition for innovation in clean maritime in 2019 and a round of Government grant support for early stage research projects in the same year. Both commitments have been delivered, with the Clean Maritime Call funding round having supported 24 green shipping projects and having been six-times oversubscribed.

Today my officials continue to engage with industry to develop a Covid-19 Recovery Plan for Maritime. The Recovery Plan will consider how economic recovery for the maritime sector can be aligned with the need to reduce and eventually eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Ensuring that we plan for a green recovery has been jointly identified by Government and industry as a top priority.

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