EU must go beyond weak global rules in its regulation of shipping emissions
If international shipping were a country, its emissions would be the sixth largest in the world – larger than Germany’s.
The EU is thankfully beginning to regulate these emissions through a number of policy proposals under negotiation, including a marine fuel standard (the FuelEU Maritime) and adding shipping to the EU emissions trading system (EU ETS).
But many countries beyond the EU, goaded by the shipping industry, have been arguing that the only climate regulation of shipping should be global. This is not only extremely lazy given the sheer scale of the climate crisis, but it is also illegal in the face of obligations under the Paris Agreement.
