Failure to ratify shipping emissions law could threaten IMO progress - Transport & Environment

Posted March 21, 2011 - Transport & Environment

The Clean Shipping Coalition, of which T&E is a leading member, has written to the Hungarian presidency of the EU, calling on it to act quickly to get five EU member states plus Monaco to ratify the Marpol Annex VI regulation on ship pollution. The move is important, as it could affect whether efforts by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to reduce greenhouse emissions from ships are successful or not.
It seemed something of a breakthrough at the end of last year when it emerged that, despite determined opposition from some developing countries, the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for new ships would be put to July’s IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee for adoption as an amendment to Annex VI of MARPOL, the IMO’s marine pollution convention. Only those IMO members who have ratified Annex VI can vote on whether to include the EEDI. Five EU members plus Monaco have not yet done so.

Complete story at:
http://www.transportenvironment.org/News/2011/3/Failure-to-ratify-shipping-emissions-law-could-threaten-IMO-progress/