{"id":48847,"date":"2023-07-06T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=48847"},"modified":"2023-07-06T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:48:13","slug":"imo-mepc-shipping-talks-climate-2030-2040-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/07\/06\/imo-mepc-shipping-talks-climate-2030-2040-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Governments set to fail to plot shipping industry course for 1.5C"},"content":{"rendered":"

A campaign by climate-vulnerable Pacific islands to raise governments’ ambition on emissions-cutting for the global shipping industry looks set to fail at talks in London.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With just over a day of negotiations left at the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO), the latest draft strategy does not significantly improve on targets that were branded “not ambitious enough” and “devastating” when they were first proposed on Monday.<\/p>\n

Vanuatu’s climate minister Ralph Regenvanu told Climate Home at the time that he and counterparts from other Pacific island nations were “going to fight” to improve targets to reduce emissions on 2008 levels by 20% by 2030 and 70% by 2040.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re here for, we\u2019re here to lobby\u201d, he said, hours after the talks’ chair drew up the roadmap after listening to governments debate the strategy behind-closed-doors the week before.<\/p>\n

No improvement<\/h3>\n

But a new draft strategy was released this morning which did not substantially improve on those goals. The only increase in ambition was that additional targets to “striv[e]” for 25% by 2030 and 75% by 2040 were made a more definite part of the draft strategy.<\/p>\n

The document has yet to be made public so negotiators and campaigners have not commented. But the 2030 and 2040 targets were slammed on Monday with Australia’s negotiator labelling them “not ambitious enough”.<\/p>\n

Shipping contributes to around 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

Identifying loss and damage<\/strong> is tough \u2013 we need a pragmatic but science-based approach<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Marshall Islands negotiator Albon Ishoda told journalists that \u201cthe science already told us\u201d that \u201canything less than 36% by 2030 and 96% by 2040 will be detrimental\u201d to limiting global warming to 1.5C and that will \u201chave a devastating impact\u201d.<\/p>\n

The targets Ishoda called for have also been supported by the USA and UK and stem from<\/a> what the Science-Based Targets Initiative judged compatible with limiting global warming to 1.5C.<\/p>\n

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Six main proposals for new shipping GHG targets on deck @IMOHQ<\/a> this week… China leading charge against as apparently tougher targets in line with 1.5C would undermine UN #climate<\/a> talks. Work that one out. pic.twitter.com\/2D7fcCbLyd<\/a><\/p>\n

— Ed King (@edking_I) July 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n