Global shipping emissions are predicted to increase by between 50% and 250% by 2050 – depending on future economic and energy developments, according to the European Commission.
In line with the EU’s calls for a global approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping, since the beginning of the year, large ships using EU ports have been required to report their verified annual emissions and other relevant information.
Official data from the European Commission states that maritime transport emits around one billion tonnes of CO2 annually – and is responsible for about 2.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
As such, this is not compatible with the internationally-agreed goal of keeping global temperature increase to below 2° compared to pre-industrial levels, which requires worldwide emissions to be at least halved from 1990 levels by 2050.
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