{"id":49273,"date":"2023-09-26T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatechangenews.com\/?p=49273"},"modified":"2023-09-26T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:16:10","slug":"the-cruise-industry-says-lng-is-a-climate-solution-its-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/09\/26\/the-cruise-industry-says-lng-is-a-climate-solution-its-not\/","title":{"rendered":"The cruise industry says LNG is a climate solution. It&#8217;s not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On my way home from a recent holiday in France, I drove past Saint Nazaire shipyard. On the dry dock, dwarfing everything around it, was Royal Caribbean\u2019s new cruise ship under construction \u2013 Utopia of the Seas. It will be the company\u2019s first cruise ship in its class to be powered by liquified natural gas, or LNG.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">LNG is a fossil fuel whose use is not consistent with the Paris Agreement 1.5C temperature goal. It consists primarily of methane, an extremely powerful greenhouse gas (GHG), which has climate impacts over 80 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. Methane leaks into the atmosphere across the full production lifecycle of LNG, and once on the ships, the unburned gas escapes from the smokestacks into the air.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Despite the devastating frontloaded climate impact of methane, to date policymakers have been slow to address its use in regulation, and public awareness of the issue is low. This gives cruise companies the latitude to invest in LNG as an alternative fuel \u2013 and they have done so with gusto.\u00a0 <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Why do cruise companies love LNG?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">There are some benefits to LNG on paper:\u00a0in the short term it reduces air pollution and CO2 emissions when burned, compared to standard shipping fuel. This has led to some of the world\u2019s biggest cruise companies (including Carnival Corporation &amp; plc and MSC Cruises and Royal Caribbean Group) to portray their cruises as sustainable, and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> their newest ships &#8220;clean&#8221;, &#8220;green&#8221; and &#8220;eco-friendly&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-49276 size-large alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/climatechangenews.com\/files\/2023\/09\/Picture2-Costa-Cruises-334x337.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2023\/09\/26144803\/Picture2-Costa-Cruises-334x337.png 334w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2023\/09\/26144803\/Picture2-Costa-Cruises-167x168.png 167w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2023\/09\/26144803\/Picture2-Costa-Cruises.png 396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Across the industry, company webpages are littered with references to LNG superimposed on images of idyllic blue seas, thriving coral reefs, and green forests. Most of us aren\u2019t specialists in the climate impacts of differing fuel compositions, and it\u2019s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> easy to be taken in.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">But the reality is that these adverts are a very effective smokescreen for the fact that the true climate effect of LNG is likely worse than if the companies had stuck with dirty heavy marine fuel oil.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Calling out cruise companies\u2019 \u2018green\u2019 claims<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">With <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">recent poll data demonstrating that environmentally friendly cruise line policies <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruisecritic.co.uk\/articles\/what-is-sustainable-cruising-and-why-should-i-care\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">mattered to 77% of respondents<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">, and US research relating to consumer goods showing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/industries\/consumer-packaged-goods\/our-insights\/consumers-care-about-sustainability-and-back-it-up-with-their-wallets\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">a link between products making green claims and higher sales growth<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">, it\u2019s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> clear that sustainability sells.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">We don\u2019t think it\u2019s right that some of the biggest companies in the world should be able to profit from green claims that don\u2019t<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> stack up.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">That\u2019s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> why at Opportunity Green we\u2019re filing complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the UK about the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opportunitygreen.org\/publication-unsustainable-from-ship-to-shore\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">worst advertising we\u2019ve seen<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">. This includes cruise companies claiming that fossil-LNG is <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201ca breakthrough green technology\u201d, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">among the cleanest fuels in the world\u201d, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">and that it is a milestone on the \u201cjourney to zero emissions operations\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">It is not ok to mislead consumers about the real climate impact of LNG. And in the absence of effective regulation of methane emissions in the shipping sector, we want companies and their investors to see that LNG is not part of a future-proof business model.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Instead, forward-looking companies must be investing in true zero emissions solutions such as wind propulsion, electrification and e-fuels made from renewable energy such as methanol, ammonia or hydrogen to deal with climate transition risk.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Truly decarbonising the cruise sector won\u2019t be easy, but these companies have the market share to make a difference \u2013 and the first mover advantage could be significant. It might even be \u2018green\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">For more information about how cruise companies are is trying to gaslight the public into believing that LNG is a climate solution, read the full report, <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opportunitygreen.org\/publication-unsustainable-from-ship-to-shore\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">(UN)sustainable from ship to shore<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Carly Hicks is legal director at Opportunity Green.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the world&#8217;s biggest cruise companies are claiming to be green, while continuing to use weakly regulated fossil fuels","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":49278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2443,67],"tags":[],"coauthors":[5070],"class_list":["post-49273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comments","category-shipping","type-comment"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The cruise industry says LNG is a climate solution. 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