New UNEP report outlines the pathways to 2020 and includes a chapter on shipping and aviation.
Building on the success of the first report published last year, the new report not only reviews the ‘emission gap’ but also promising approaches to addressing it.
The report was presented at a side event at COP17 in Durban by Prof. Joe Alcamo, Chief Scientist of United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). It has been put together by a distinguished, independent team of international authors and includes a chapter on shipping and aviation, which co-authored by DNV researchers Øyvind Endresen and Magnus Eide.
“As part of the 2009 Copenhagen Accord, the parties agreed to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. Although the country pledges will help in reducing emissions to below a business-as-usual level in 2020, they are not adequate to reduce emissions to a level consistent with the 2°C target, and therefore lead to a gap,” explains Endresen, director of the maritime transport program in DNV Research and Innovation.
“The report gives an update of emission gap estimates, and more importantly, provides ideas on how to bridge the gap. Our main contribution has been work on marginal abatement costs for shipping CO2, and scenarios for future shipping emission levels,” he adds.
More information on the report may be found at:
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=2659&ArticleID=8955&l=en
DNV is a recognised authority on shipping emissions and solutions for meeting the challenges related to energy efficiency and CO2 emission reductions. Its Research and Innovation Unit is continuously working to build competence and tools in this area. Using advanced modelling technology, DNV researchers are actively participating in a large number of projects, describing various pathways to low carbon shipping.