European shipping companies, including the German giant Hapag-Lloyd, and NGOs wrote to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on Monday 17 February asking it to exclude unsustainable biofuels from its list of green alternatives to traditional fossil fuels.
While the IMO has set itself ambitious targets for reducing maritime traffic to zero by 2050, it has not yet specified the means for achieving them. According to the letter’s signatories, “without key safeguards, the new...