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A new report by the Tyndall center for climate change and the Sustainable Consumption Institute has found that the way in which the UK calculates carbon emissions emitted by the shipping industry is seriously flawed. The report, published just ahead of talks on introducing a shipping tax in Europe, suggests that in fact the industry could be polluting up to six times more than previously estimated, and more than aviation.
The research considers the role that the shipping sector could play in mitigating total global emissions, with a particular focus on assessing the potential for UK unilateral action.
The report begins by quantifying the scale of the climate change challenge faced, considers the role of shipping in relation to mitigation, presents and assesses a range of apportionment methods for estimating CO2 emissions from international shipping at a national scale, and quantifies the UK‘s emissions using these methods.
According to the report, the way UK authorities assess carbon emissions fail to accurately picture the real extent of pollution damage caused by shipping, as emissions are calculated by only factoring bunker fuel sold at UK ports.
According to the authors of the report, this is highly misleading as it does not accurately factor in both imports and exports, and importantly doesn’t account for fuel that is purchased at cheaper, foreign ports.
The report’s salient findings are that:
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