ship emissions

By The Editors (Bloomberg View) — The shipping industry accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than airplanes, buses or trains. Yet it was not

By Libby George LONDON, Nov 7 (Reuters) – A switch to cleaner fuels in the world’s ships in 2020 could double the profits of the world’s most

The landmark Paris Agreement to combat climate change became international law on Friday with its entry into force less than a year after it was unanimously

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has applauded the agreement, last Friday, by the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) to develop a

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Oct 27 (Reuters) – The United Nations’ shipping agency set global regulations on Thursday to limit the amount of sulfur

A group of 52 leading maritime players have called on the International Maritime Organization to act on cutting emissions from the shipping industry ahead

By Roslan Khasawneh and Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Oct 4 (Reuters) – The global shipping industry is bracing for a key regulatory decision that could mark a

By Alister Doyle OSLO, July 18 (Reuters) – A boom in shipping is aggravating air pollution in China and other nations in East Asia, causing thousands of

APL, the container shipping unit of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines, says it has reduced its fleet’s carbon dioxide emissions by 45.5% in 2015

By Jonathan Saul and Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) – Disagreement among nations means no carbon emissions targets have been set for international

The International Maritime Organization says it has made progress towards reducing CO2 emissions from ships with the Marine Environment Protection Committee

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is proposing to update 36-year-old regulations to make sure that offshore oil and gas activities do not

By Justin Sink, Josh Wingrove and Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced steps to

Wärtsilä Corp. is launching a complete concept for a series of innovative and cost effective shuttle ferries featuring zero or low emissions. The ferries,

Maersk Group, owner of the world’s largest fleet containerships, says it is “disappointed’ that the landmark Paris agreement on climate

With no explicit reference to shipping in the historic climate deal unanimously adopted by almost 200 nations in Paris this weekend, it is now up to the

PARIS, Dec 12 (Reuters) – After four years of global negotiations, two weeks of intense talks and more than a few sleepless nights, climate officials

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is urging further support of CO2 reduction measures at the IMO regardless of the final outcome of the UN Climate

By Kathy Chen and Keith Wallis BEIJING/SINGAPORE, Dec 10(Reuters) – China will introduce tough controls on ship emissions at three key port areas from

A draft climate agreement resulting from 11 days of negotiations at the COP21 climate talks in Paris and published Wednesday afternoon makes no explicit