The preliminary ‘programme of follow-up actions’ is intended to develop the necessary range of short- mid- and long-term measures required under the initial GHG framework
IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) has set out an agenda of action points for its member states as they begin to discuss and attempt to define the measures they will take to meet the initial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions-reduction framework targets agreed at MEPC 72 in April 2018.
Short-term measures that would chart a course to at least halve global emissions from shipping by 2050 could be finalised and agreed between 2018 and 2023; mid-term measures, between 2023 and 2030; and long-term measures, beyond 2030.
Saying the actions send “a clear signal” on how to make progress on GHG reductions in shipping, IMO secretary-general Kitack Lim charged the member states of IMO to go further and move more swiftly to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets.
“I understand that you have a heavy workload ahead,” he said. “I am convinced that… you will be able to deliver and even accelerate the pace of actions and tackle this immense and global challenge.”
A data collection system will be put in place from 1 January 2019 to measure fuel oil consumption on vessels weighing more than 5,000 gt. And a working group was set up in MEPC on Monday to discuss the scope of a fourth IMO GHG study that is set to be begin in the first half of 2019.
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