TY - RPRT
TI - Net zero and UK shipping
AU - Environmental Audit Committee
AB - The overall Government targets for reducing emissions from UK shipping must be supported by stretching targets for improving operational efficiencies: greater efficiency is essential to reducing overall fuel consumption and limiting the volume of fuel storage required on board vessels. The UK should maximise its advantages as the jurisdiction of choice for international shipping law, and as the home of the UK Hydrographic Office, to leverage measures to increase shipping route optimisation. Ministers ought to consider the benefits of requiring vessels to meet a carbon intensity standard before being allowed to enter UK ports. Measures to deliver shore power from renewables to UK ports must be proceeded with swiftly. Initiatives to establish green shipping corridors originating from UK ports should be supported to the fullest extent possible. The refresh of the Government’s Clean Maritime Plan is long overdue. The revised Plan must respond positively to the IMO’s increased ambition for decarbonising international shipping, and set stretching yet deliverable objectives and actions for UK shipping. It ought at a minimum to contain specific overall and interim targets for decarbonising shipping, together with a credible plan to achieve them. The plan ought to comprise a strategy for developing hydrogen-based zero-emission maritime fuel production in the UK, with associated transmission and storage facilities; a strategy to maximise the UK’s contribution to international shipping route optimisation; and a plan to deliver decarbonised shore power to UK ports. The new Clean Maritime Plan should be issued not later than September 2024.
DA - 2024/05//
PY - 2024
SP - 1
EP - 73
PB - House of Commons
UR - https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmselect/cmenvaud/509/report.html
LA - English
KW - Hydrogen
KW - Hydrogen
KW - Ammonia
KW - Methanol
KW - Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) and GHG Emissions
KW - Policy, Strategy and Transition Pathways
KW - Ocean-going Vessels
ER -