United Nations Secretary Secretary-General António Guterres [Screen grab from UN video]
As the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee began an important session on GHG discount targets (MEPC 80), United Nations Secretary Secretary-General António Guterres referred to as for significant motion and stated measures comparable to carbon pricing will push the business in the fitting path.
Here’s what he stated:
Excellencies, mates.
Humanity is in harmful waters on local weather.
But the choices you are taking over the approaching days may assist us chart a safer course.
Science tells us it’s nonetheless potential to restrict world temperature rise to 1.5 levels Celsius.
But it requires an immense and rapid world effort.
And delivery, which accounts for nearly three p.c of worldwide emissions, shall be important.
The business has seen some progress.
But it should transfer a lot quicker to get on observe and drive funding and innovation.
I urge you to go away London having agreed a Greenhouse Gas Strategy that commits the sector to internet zero emissions by 2050 on the newest;
And that features formidable science-based targets beginning in 2030 – each on absolute emissions reductions and using clear fuels.
These should embody all greenhouse gasoline emissions and canopy the entire worth chain.
Such targets will present the understanding that the business and buyers want.
I additionally urge you to decide to growing technical and financial insurance policies and laws to ship on these targets and assist a simply, equitable transition.
Measures comparable to carbon pricing will push the business in the fitting path by making zero-emission fuels extra aggressive.
While the finance generated can assist the simply transition in growing nations and tackle the wants of these most susceptible to the local weather disaster.
I stay up for welcoming leaders from authorities and enterprise, together with delivery, to the Climate Ambition Summit I’m holding in September. To current credible, concrete motion to maintain 1.5 levels alive.
Excellencies, mates,
This assembly of the Marine Environment Protection Committee is an opportunity to steer us in direction of a clear, affluent future for the business – and a safer future for humanity.
I urge you to take it.
Thank you.
MEPC 80 AGENDA
What comes out of MEPC 80, which runs from July 3 to 7, stays to be seen, however the agenda is full of gadgets that, along with GHG reductions, embody the Ballast Water Management Convention Review Plan, marine plastic litter, the adoption of the revised Biofouling Guidelines, and the designation of the Western Mediterranean Sea as a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area.
