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Dr Elizabeth Lindstad on why increased use of LNG might not reduce maritime...
Earlier this year industry organisations promoting liquefied natural gas as a maritime fuel commissioned and published a study on the climate benefits of LNG for ships. The study claims up to 21% GHG...
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LNG remains a deadend for decarbonising maritime transport
On 9 May 2019, a new cruise ship, called AidaNOVA called at the port of Barcelona. On the face of it, AidaNOVA was just another massive luxury cruiser. But the industry called it a game changer because...
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Transport should lead, not lag, in the shift to a net zero carbon UK economy
Transport & Environment UK (T&E UK) warmly welcomes the recommendation of the Climate Change Committee to increase the UK’s ambition to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. This is...
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First gas-powered cruise ship is not sustainable tourism
T&E has joined forces with environmental NGOs in Spain to warn that a high-profile exercise in cleaning up shipping risks locking in fossil fuels for decades to come. The port of Barcelona has...
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Shipping industry highlights ‘urgent need’ for speed limits
Efforts to reduce the environmental impact of shipping should begin with mandatory speed restrictions for all commercial ships. That is the message from more than 100 maritime companies and nine NGOs,...
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IMO responds to Climate Emergency with two more weeks of procedural wrangling
Three years after Paris and over a year after agreeing a 2050 decarbonisation objective, European campaign groups Transport & Environment and Seas at Risk, leading members of the Clean Shipping...
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Transport decarbonisation in the EU and Member States: best practices and the...
When? Thursday, June 6, 2019 - 09:00 to 17:00This conference will discuss transport decarbonisation in the context of the Eastern and Central European EU Member States, with a focus on the 2030 and...
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EU shipping's 24bn-a-year fossil tax holidays
This paper estimates that the EU gives more than EURO 24 billion per year in subsidies to maritime sector in the form of fossil fuel tax exemptions under the European Energy Tax Directive (ETD) and...
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€24bn in fossil fuel subsidies ‘a perverse incentive’ for shipping pollution
One of the most polluting forms of transport is benefiting from what is effectively a fossil fuel subsidy of €24 billion a year, according to a new report by T&E. Shipping, which still runs largely...
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