ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK TO REGULATE AIR POLLUTANT EMISSIONS FROM MARITIME TRANSPORT - Facultas – Sustainable Development Resources

Posted by professorpaul on 2010/05/10 Facultas – Sustainable Development Resources

This new report from the Joint Research Centre of the European Union provides an analysis of the pollutants emitted by maritime transport and analyses policy options for regulating those emissions and mitigating their impact on the environment.
Abstract:
Maritime transport activity is becoming one of the most important topics on sustainability debate. Indeed, a part from industrial activity and energy production, maritime transport is the largest contributors to air pollution and the increasing rate of trade make the problem even more worrying. Scope of this report is to sketch the state of the art on data, methodologies, air emissions estimations, technological and policy options to design a sectorial environmental policy strategy to regulate air emissions from ships. The report gives an overview of the main methods to estimate the air emissions deriving from shipping activities and compares their results to define a reference framework. Particularly attention is done to cost effectiveness analysis of technological and policy options to abate GHG emissions from international maritime transport taking into account the legal regulatory system of this sector, and the main legal and economics constraints to implement a sectorial policy to abate CO2 emissions. More and Summary at -

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