the association of the European shipowners rejects the hypothesis to drastically reduce the emissions of the shipping within end 2016



It is unrealistic to ask the field of the marine transport to drastically limit ulteriorly and own carbon dioxide emissions within the end of 2016. It has emphasized the association of European shipowners ECSA commenting the approval of the resolution of the European Parliament that speeds up the EU and its Member States to reach an agreement during the world-wide conference on climate COP21, than will hold from on 30 November to 11 next Decembers to Paris, on a cut of 40% of the gas emissions to greenhouse effect within a 2030 and progressive increase of the financial engagements for the climatic policies. Wednesday the Parliament has asked moreover that the fields of the aerial and marine transport adopt provisions in order to limit their emissions within the end of 2016.

"If we do not succeed to avoid that global warming exceeds the two degrees Celsius within the end of the century - it has emphasized the reporter Gilles Pargneaux after the voting of the Parliament - we assist more and more to phenomena of drought, floodings, issolution of the glaciers and disappeared of farmland. The climatic change will be also one of the causes of the increase of the migratory problems".

The resolution of the European Parliament remembers among other things "that the transport is according to field for amount of gas emissions the greenhouse and insists on the necessity to launch a series of aiming policies to diminish the emissions of this field". Moreover "it restates that the parts of the UNFCCC must take part for ordering and effectively limiting the emissions deriving from international the aerial and marine transport, online with requirement in adequacy matter and urgency" and "invites all the parts to strive, in the picture of the Organization for international civil aviation (ICAO) and of international marine Organization (IMO), in order to elaborate a total political picture that allows to supply an effective answer and in order to adopt measures apt to fix objectives adapted within the end of 2016 in order to light achieve the necessary reductions of the objective of the 2 °C";

The expiration of end 2016 is source of strong worry for the ECSA (European Comminity Shipowners' Associations). "We are happy - the general secretary of the shipowning association has asserted, Patrick Verhoeven - for stating that the European Parliament recognizes the importance of a total solution for international the marine transport and depends on the action of the IMO, that would have to be authorized to continue in its efforts. But also we are worried - it has emphasized Verhoeven - for the established maturity date Wednesday from the eurodeputati ones. 2016 - it has found the representative of the ECSA - are own behind the angle and therefore it is rather unrealistic to expect that the IMO finds a solution in little months". Evidencing that the marine transport is, as little other fields, an international market and as such necessity of total norms, Verhoeven has observed that "an European unilateral impulse towards an iron expiration can be counter-productive".

The general secretary of the European shipowning association has remembered also the giganteschi steps forward completed from the IMO (International Maritime Organization) and from the same industry of shipping in the field of energy efficiency and the reduction of the emissions of co2, the initiatives that they have produced turned out concrete as the contribution of the marine transport to the total emissions of co2 in fact is diminished. The last relationship Green House Gas of the IMO, published in 2014 - it has emphasized - explains that international the marine transport, while transports about 90% of world-wide the commercial exchanges, produces about 2.2% of the total of the emissions of co2 world-wise, percentage that in 2007 was of 2.8%, for a total reduction of the produced emissions of co2 from shipping the pairs to beyond 10% between 2007 and 2012. This - it has found - although the continuous increase of the marine transport, that it means that the shipping it is already producing an increase carbon neutral.

The director Sicurezza and atmosphere of the ECSA, Benoit Loicq, have observed moreover that "the expiration of 2016 is not coherent with the measures already adopted to communitarian level. Pressing for an expiration extremely drawn closer - he has specified - the EU substantially he would put to risk the procedure of the IMO. If then the European Union were concentrated on regional measures would make reverse regarding its same politics". Loicq in fact has remembered that the regulations on the monitoring, the reporting and the verification (MRV) of the EU, proposed from the EU commission in 2013 ( on 28 June 2013), first phase of a gradual approach oriented towards a total solution, that is in center IMO is conceived which, allowing to determine the real contribution of the marine transport with the total emissions of co2. "The agreed distance - it has emphasized Loicq - is that to begin in 2018 with an accurate picture of the emissions of co2 of the industry of the shipping, that is two years after the expiration proposed from the European Parliament. If now we make steps behind and we jump completely the phase of collection of the data, as it will be possible to fix realistic and fair objectives? A total instrument of monitoring and reporting of the co2 is already in phase of development near the IMO and - it has concluded Loicq - we consider that it is essential to encourage the alignment of the regulations MRV of the EU with the instrument of the IMO".