Shipping
Marshall Islands offer plan to green vast shipping fleet
NEWS: Foreign minister says UN leadership needed to ensure all flagged carriers adopt tougher carbon cutting regulations
Shipping sector needs stronger climate policy – scientists
NEWS: Stringent measures are needed for shipping to make a fair contribution to global emissions cuts, researchers argue
Planes and ships escape scrutiny in bottom-up climate regime
ANALYSIS: International aviation and shipping are not mentioned in the Lima call for climate action, despite growing emissions
Ocean health threatened as traffic soars 400% in 20 years
NEWS: Indian Ocean worst affected by marine pollution say researchers, who used satellite data to track ships
Global shipping emissions set to rise unchecked
NEWS: Greenhouse gas emissions from shipping will rise up to 250% by 2050, finds study, as the UN fails to regulate the sector
Satellite data could drive low-carbon shipping sector
NEWS: Shipping industry is ducking its share of carbon emissions cuts, study says
Norwegians issue shipping warning as Arctic sea lanes open
Longer ice-free periods in the Arctic will lead to increased activity in the region within the next ten years and intensify ice degradation
North Pole sea lane open for business by 2050 say experts
Melting sea ice caused by global warming set to offer shipping companies opportunity to exploit new Arctic route
Five steps to fill the $100bn Green Climate Fund
COP18: We do the math to work out how measures already under development can fill the fund and ensure the real work can start in Doha
Why taxing shipping emissions is not all plain sailing
Good progress is being made towards a deal on shipping emissions, despite the conflicting ambitions of the International Maritime Organisation and UN climate change agency
WWF: Shipping emissions tax worth $10bn a year to the Green Climate Fund
Talks through the IMO make solid progress towards compromise following 15 years of discussions to tackle CO2 emissions from shipping.
EU lays groundwork for global shipping climate action
Emissions measurement system to begin in 2013 as precursor to maritime inclusion in carbon market.
IMO stalls on shipping CO2 emissions as clash with EU looms
UN maritime body makes little progress and defers talks to October as Europe stresses time for deal is running out.
US Navy tests genetically modified algal fuel
Navy and shipping firm Maersk collaborate on largest ever biofuel shipping trials
Shipping industry rails against inclusion in national climate change targets
Global trade needs a global framework through the UN, says International Chamber of Shipping.
Shipping braced to take a hit in Durban
Shipping has been targeted as a source of finance for the Green Climate Fund, but could a deal at Durban mean the industry ends up paying a disproportionate amount?
Shipping emissions should be included in UK carbon budgets
A report by the Committee on Climate Change urges for shipping emissions to be included in the UK’s carbon budgets, but says for really reduction in emissions and global deal must be agreed