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The International Maritime Organization (IMO) last Friday agreed to force energy efficiency design standards on new ships from 2013, but the deal did not contain CO2 emissions reduction targets.
It also did not make any move on carbon trading, or on taxing the heavily-polluting bunker fuels used by most ships. This is eventually expected to slow rather than reduce the growth of maritime CO2 pollution.
48 countries voted in favor of adopting a mandatory energy-efficiency design index (EEDI) for new ships at a meeting of the IMO's marine environment protection committee in London on Friday. Five were against and 12 abstained, according to reports.
The measures are now enshrined in Annex VI of the MARPOL Convention covering air pollution from ships and are binding on all 180 member states of IMO.
IMO is the United Nations specialized agency with responsibility for the safety and security of shipping and the prevention of marine pollution by ships.
The EEDI will force new ships to meet a minimum level of energy efficiency. This means that ships built between 2015 and 2019 will need to improve their efficiency by 10 percent, which will graduate to 20 percent between 2020 and 2024 and 30 percent for ships delivered after 2024. Under the deal, each new vessel over 400 gross tonnes ordered from 1 January 2013, would require a survey of fuel efficiency and have an International Energy Efficiency Certificate issued.
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