Fotini Ioannidou, Deputy Director-General for Maritime Transport at the European Commission, explained the failure of the vote on the United Nations International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) ‘zero net emissions’ framework to the European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) on Wednesday 5 November.
On Friday 17 October, IMO Member States failed to adopt the agreement reached in April to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from shipping to zero by 2050...