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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Time for voluntary GHG action to be rewarded - HELLENIC SHIPPING NEWS WORLDWIDE

Posted November 3, 2010 - HELLENIC SHIPPING NEWS WORLDWIDE

Leading maritime greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions consultancy Carbon Positive says the slow pace of GHG regulation in shipping opens up a great opportunity for forward-thinking, innovative members of the shipping community to develop pioneering market-based initiatives; programs that will help the sector prepare for any future compliance obligations, reward early actors for their contribution, and demonstrate decisive action to those outside the sector. A WHITE PAPER issued today by Carbon Positive outlines how voluntary, market-based action can help prepare industries for compliance-based schemes, stimulate technological advance, and inform the development of good regulation along the way. Continuing this theme, Carbon Positive will be initiating a CONSULTATION PROCESS to develop an action programme for trading experiments in 2011.
Carbon Positive CEO Helena Athoussaki said: “Given the understandable difficulties IMO has in developing GHG regulation,......

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http://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=128658&Itemid=95
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