The United Nations organization responsible for international marine shipping today approved new emission reduction policies. A new paper published in Earth’s Future highlights the need.
The United Nations organization responsible for international marine shipping today approved new emission reduction policies. A new paper published in Earth’s Future highlights the need.
UBC researchers surveyed 149 marine shipping experts in 2021 and found they expect the sector to see a reduction of 30 to 40% in the carbon intensity of shipping—a measure of the amount of CO2 emitted to ship cargo over a given distance—by 2030 compared with 2008 levels.
