The shipping industry is responsible for three percent of global GHG emissions every year. The good news is that the necessary technologies to achieve a significant emissions reduction from shipping are already available.
“The climate crisis requires urgent action. We already have technologies that make vessels significantly more fuel efficient, preserve the marine environment, reduce fuel costs and enable a more sustainable value chain,” says Alexander Enström, Executive Vice President, Head of Marine at Hempel. “The key to fully leveraging these technologies is transparency. As an industry, we need to find a way to share knowledge and data to enable a meaningful acceleration of the industry’s decarbonization ambitions.”
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Regulatory bodies are driving accelerated decarbonization of the maritime industry
Increasingly, regulatory bodies are driving accelerated decarbonization of the maritime industry. This is what Hempel will discuss when participating in the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping event on 'Regulations as a key enabler of maritime decarbonization' at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
Alexander continues: “By applying a premium hull coating to more than 3000 ships, Hempel has enabled fuel savings of approx. 27 million tonnes of CO2 through enabling smoother hulls and reducing drag. These solutions can accelerate the decarbonization of the shipping industry here and now and enable our customers to comply with new, stricter regulations. Hempel supports greater transparency between key industry players to drive this further and faster.”
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“The COP in Egypt takes place at a critical point in time. To keep global warming below 1.5˚C, we need to decarbonize as quickly as possible. This applies to all industry sectors including maritime. First, we need to create regulations enabling local action like the Green Corridors."
He adds, "Second, these need to be supported by national, regional, and global policy to upscale the solutions to decarbonize the entire maritime industry. This integrated approach between private and public stakeholders holds great potential to inspire other industry sectors,” said Jan-Christoph Napierski, Head of Regulatory Affairs at the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping.