Shipping companies are turning the tanker too slowly to decarbonise on time.
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International shipping is a big contributor to climate change, and it doesn’t change quickly, but its companies are starting to invest in cleaner fuels.
The global shipping sector delivers 90% of global trade and has a carbon footprint the size of Germany’s.
If shipping were a country, it would rank between Japan and Germany as the sixth-largest contributor to global carbon dioxide emissions.
In early 2020, stranded cruise ships became a stark symbol of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Now it’s seafarers stranded on cargo ships.
It’s high time the international shipping industry radically curbed its emissions. The industry must set a net-zero target and adopt a realistic plan to meet it.
Shipping companies are expected to halve their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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Senior Lecturer in Culture & Climate, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
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Assistant Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain, University of Bradford
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Professor of Climate Science and Energy Policy, University of Manchester
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Visiting Academic in Decarbonisation, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor of Business, University of Tennessee
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Research Associate, Shipping and Climate Change, University of Manchester
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Professor and Department Chair, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor in Circular Supply Chains, University of Bradford
