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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping. The global shipping industry's decarbonization efforts once again face stormy seas. Faïg Abbasov, head of shipping at campaign group Transport & Environment, told BusinessGreen the proposal was "essentially an empty shell." "To Cecilia Keating.

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Six Outcomes Leading Businesses Want to See from COP28

We Mean Business Coalition

The world is not currently on track to achieve the goals set out in the Paris Agreement. Targeted action by sector and region This year’s COP28 in Dubai sees the culmination of the first-ever UNFCCC Global Stocktake, which assesses progress made since the Paris Agreement. This political momentum is welcome.

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UN Shipping Agency Greenlights A Decade Of Rising Greenhouse Gas Emissions

CleanTechnica

The IMO’s marine environment protection committee approved a proposal that will allow the shipping sector’s 1 billion tonnes of annual greenhouse gas emissions to keep rising for the rest of this decade — the very decade in which the world’s climate scientists say we must halve global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.