Guided by the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, the World Ports Sustainability Program (WPSP) led by the International Association of Ports and also Harbors (IAPH) has actually launched its World Ports Sustainability Report 2020. The record becomes part of the WPSP objective to satisfy its objective to improve and also collaborate future sustainability initiatives of ports worldwide, promoting worldwide teamwork with companions in the supply chain.
IAPH Managing Director Patrick Verhoeven, total planner of the Program commented:
“When we introduced the World Ports Sustainability Program 2 years earlier, our prime purposes were to develop an on-line profile of port sustainability tasks and also to establish a system that would certainly additionally supply a think-tank and also reproducing ground for brand-new sustainability efforts. We have actually supplied on these purposes. With 120 tasks from 71 ports, covering 38 nations and also 5 continents, the WPSP Portfolio is ending up being a worldwide treasure on lasting port growth.
We additionally had an additional goal in mind when we established the program which was to on a regular basis report on the sustainability efficiency of the worldwide ports industry.
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With this World Ports Sustainability Report we offer our following deliverable.”
The record adheres to the thematic framework of the World Ports Sustainability Program and also gives details on just how ports are buying durable framework, environment and also power, neighborhood outreach and also port-city discussion, safety and security and also protection and also administration and also values.
Dr Antonis Michail, writer of the record as WPSP Technical Director included: “Our report concludes that community outreach and port-city dialogue are on top of ports’ agendas worldwide. With ports being granted their license to operate and grow by their own local communities, the result is logical. Climate and energy and resilient infrastructure also score relatively high, which confirms efforts motivated by external societal, political and commercial pressures to embrace decarbonization and digitalization. It is in these two areas of interest where we also see the highest frequency of activities in terms of collaborative projects on the WPSP platform where IAPH is taking either a leading or partnering role.”
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Governance and also values and also safety and security and also protection would certainly seem underdeveloped locations seeking even more interest, although the current dilemma triggered by COVID-19 is currently changing emphasis of ports in the direction of both locations of rate of interest. In the current WPSP Task Force COVID-19 advice paper for ports, an added finest method area on altruistic activities embraced by IAPH participant ports will certainly currently be included based upon the responses of the Task Force participants which exceed and also past temporary activities in reaction to the influence of COVID-19 on port areas.
An overview on using the UN Sustainable Goals in method
In line with its objective to show worldwide management of ports in adding to the UN SDGs, and also with the assistance of the UNCTAD, WPSP arranged a committed workshop in March 2019 en route ports can use SDGs in method. It happened at the UNCTAD Headquarters in Geneva, collecting over 30 delegates from IAPH participant ports, the Trade and also Logistics branch of UNCTAD, UN Global Compact, different scholastic specialists in addition to reps from financial and also delivery. The team specified and also focused on possible port authority activities per UN Sustainable Development Goal and also settled on a roadmap onward.
As a follow-up to the Geneva workshop, the World Ports Sustainability Program has actually established a functional structure on just how ports can apply each of the 17 UN SDGs in method in the record. To develop better on this structure, WPSP is preparing a cutting-edge video gaming principle made to bring the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to life for ports all over the world. Based on the information collected regarding just how ports use SDGs in method, the video gaming principle is made to educate and also boost recognition of individuals utilized in ports, port customers and also their areas on their functions in accomplishing the UN-adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The video game has actually currently been examined before the COVID-19 episode with port specialists and also is being adjusted for launch later on this year.
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