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Solomon Islands envoy to EU leads band against shipping's CO2 emissions
The Pacific islands are on a collision course with world shipping, says Moses Kouni Mose, Solomon Islands ambassador to the European Union.
"The shipping industry could undermine global climate efforts. But Pacific islands and EU nations are joining together to force it to change," said Mr Mose in an article in London's Climate Home magazine.
"The international shipping sector sits outside the Paris climate agreement, yet it is a significant and growing source of carbon emissions," he said.
"Unless it is controlled, shipping will undermine all our national efforts to achieve the agreement's temperature goals," he said.
The UN's International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) latest report, which includes the effects of all their current policy measures, expects shipping's greenhouse gas emissions to grow 50-250 per cent between 2012 and 2050, he said.
Following the third Pacific Regional Transport and Energy Ministers meeting in Tonga, formation of the "High Ambition Coalition for Shipping" was formed.
It is a small group of Pacific and EU countries working together to submit papers to IMO urging it to make progressive, ambitious and effective policy on international shipping's emissions.
"The shipping industry could undermine global climate efforts. But Pacific islands and EU nations are joining together to force it to change," said Mr Mose in an article in London's Climate Home magazine.
"The international shipping sector sits outside the Paris climate agreement, yet it is a significant and growing source of carbon emissions," he said.
"Unless it is controlled, shipping will undermine all our national efforts to achieve the agreement's temperature goals," he said.
The UN's International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) latest report, which includes the effects of all their current policy measures, expects shipping's greenhouse gas emissions to grow 50-250 per cent between 2012 and 2050, he said.
Following the third Pacific Regional Transport and Energy Ministers meeting in Tonga, formation of the "High Ambition Coalition for Shipping" was formed.
It is a small group of Pacific and EU countries working together to submit papers to IMO urging it to make progressive, ambitious and effective policy on international shipping's emissions.
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