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Publish date: September 16, 2008
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The technical and regulatory means by which cuts of up to 80 to 90 percent could be made are currently available, and are a cost effective measure in comparison to land-based methods to cut emissions.
Bellona and five other environmental NGOs have jointly published a report, entitled “Air Pollution From Ships,” discussing emissions, health effects, regulatory regimens – and the potential for improvement.
An increasing part of the worlds CO2-emissions come from the shipping industry – a fact that has generally not received the attention it deserves in daily discussions on how to cut emissions. A 2008 United Nations report indicated that emissions from the world shipping industry are currently underestimated by as much as three times.
Bellona’s co-authors on the report are The North Sea Foundation, the European Environmental Bureau, the Swedish NGO Secretariat on Acid Rain, and the European Federation for Transport and Environment.
The organisations have jointly worked out a series of recommendations for action that the European Union and its Member States should undertake.
The report is available for download in PDF format in the sidebar.
Today the European Parliament voted in plenary on a variety of crucial climate files, including the Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) and the Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA). These votes send strong signals on the need for coherent climate policy which supports and manages the deployment of Carbon Dioxide Removal and Carbon Capture and Storage in an environmentally robust way.
We’re excited to share that we will be present at COP28! The Bellona Foundation will be hosting the Storytelling for Action Pavilion in the Blue Zone alongside BAFTA albert, Futerra and Think-Film Impact Production.
Safeguarding the chapters on CCS in the NZIA are crucial, so says the 23 co-signatories to our letter sent to EU Member States and European Parliament. The NZIA is a golden opportunity to ensure appropriate development of much-needed CO2 storage capacity, enabling industrial decarbonisation and a Just Transition by the retention of important welfare-carrying jobs in the harder-to-abate sector, while at the same time ensuring the proportionate contribution of Oil and Gas companies.
Overall, the target setting in the EU is an example that other regions of the world should follow in terms of creating demand for hydrogen in the right sectors, while backing it up with the renewable generation deployment to meet the demand from the electrolysers. However, the supportive landscape that could ensure targets are met is largely missing, leaving the EU strategy towards hydrogen use ambiguous and thus less effective.
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