Climate talks fall short, groups still optimistic about clean shipping future: Pacific Environment

 The closed-door talks, held during the 83rd session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), ended in a stalemate late last night, with key member states unable to compromise proposed carbon pricing mechanisms and emissions targets. The difficulty reaching consensus led to a very rare vote today on moving the measures forward, which showed that a majority of member states did favor sending them to the next MEPC meeting for adoption. “If maritime shipping was a country, it would be the sixth-largest polluter and its emissions are growing. “This is a significant moment where the International Maritime Organization has delivered targets but failed to meet its own ambition on delivering a just and equitable transition and properly incentivizing sustainable long-term fuel and technology solutions.

“We remain committed to advocating for the needed emissions reductions and revenues to address the harms that climate vulnerable countries will increasingly face.”