Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment the Government has made of the potential role of maritime decarbonisation in reaching net zero emissions.
The domestic maritime sector falls under the UK’s current national net zero target, and in common with the wider economy will need to be decarbonised by 2050 in order to achieve net zero.
The Department has published extensive research as part of the Clean Maritime Plan on Gov.UK assessing the opportunities and challenges presented by the sector’s transition to net zero, and the Transport Decarbonisation Plan, planned for publication in Spring 2021, will outline our next steps to decarbonise the sector.