Journal article
Decarbonization of maritime transport: to be or not to be?
Operations Management, Management Science, Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark1
Management Science, Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark2
Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark3
International shipping is at a crossroads as regards decarbonization. The Paris climate change agreement in 2015 (COP21) was hailed by many as a most significant achievement. Others were less enthusiastic, and more recently American President Trump decided to take the U.S. out of the agreement. Four years earlier, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) had adopted the most sweeping piece of regulation pertaining to maritime greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction, in the name of the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI).
In addition, one year after COP21, the IMO adopted a mandatory data collection system for fuel consumption of ships and agreed on an initial strategy and roadmap on the reduction of GHG emissions from ships. This paper takes a critical look at the above and other recent developments and focuses on the challenges faced by the industry if a path to significant CO2 reductions is to be successful.
Difficulties and opportunities are identified, and the paper conjectures that the main obstacles are neither technical nor economic, but political.
Language: | English |
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Year: | 2019 |
Pages: | 353-371 |
ISSN: | 1479294x and 14792931 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1057/s41278-018-0098-8 |
ORCIDs: | Psaraftis, Harilaos N. |