Shipping wants to pay for a $5bn R&D fund
Aronnax
English - March 09, 2020 14:59 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MBBusiness Science oceans sustainability environment maritime shipping legislation business Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
With international regulator, The IMO, working on how it can make international shipping, which means up to 60,000 very large ships, decarbonise, the main shipowner groups have put forward their own version of a research and development fund that could be created by the International Maritime Organisation to help with the industry reach its goal.
Read more on the website:
https://fathom.world/shipowners-unprecedented-self-financed-decarbonisation-fund/
In this episode of Aronnax, Craig Eason, Editorial Director of Fathom World talks to Guy Platten and Simon Bennett at the International Chamber of Shipping about the proposal, how they think it might work and asks if it will be enough to make a difference.
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