Shipping and decarbonisation - what happens next?
November's COP27 will be a focal point for those pushing to slash shipping's carbon footprint sooner rather than later
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LOOKING ahead to what may be in store for shipping in 2022, it is very difficult to be confident about almost anything.
The continuing Covid-19 pandemic, now with the added twist of the highly transmissible Omicron variant and increasing geopolitical tensions in several parts of the world, make any predictions even riskier hostages to fortune than usual. That said, we can be reasonably sure that pressure on shipping to decarbonise will continue to build.
COP27 - the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - is scheduled to take place in November in Egypt. It remains to be seen whether it will generate the same sort of expectations as last year's COP26 held in Glasgow.
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