Policy & Regulation Shaping the Maritime Industry

Understanding shipping’s rapidly evolving environmental regulations is key to remaining competitive.

Our dedicated expert sustainability team are on hand to help clients understand and respond to current climate change super trends.

We provide strategic advice on regulatory complexities, alternative fuels, and technologies landscape. We can support clients to implement cost effective solutions to achieve energy transition goals to permanently reduce emissions, as well as offset immediately unavoidable emissions through high-quality certified projects.
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Working towards a zero-carbon maritime industry

The IMO’s Net-Zero Framework and the Road Ahead for Global Shipping

The IMO has adopted a draft amendment to Annex VI of the MARPOL Convention approving a Net-Zero shipping policy framework by or around 2050. Set to take effect in 2028, the “J9 Bridge” style scheme as it is known, sets out a two-tiered carbon pricing mechanism & fuel standard, which if adopted late this year, will make shipping the first industry of any to have a global carbon price agreed with internationally mandated emissions reduction targets.

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