Shipping: Exhaust Emissions

(asked on 13th April 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the level of emissions that, based on current projections and without the introduction of any new measures to reduce emissions, will be attributable to (a) domestic and (b) international shipping by 2050.


Answered by
Robert Courts Portrait
Robert Courts
Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
This question was answered on 19th April 2021

The Department for Transport has commissioned extensive research and modelling assessing a range of emissions scenarios for both international and domestic shipping out to 2050.

These scenarios consider both ‘business as usual’ emissions and a range of possible interventions that could be undertaken in the UK, or through the auspices of the International Maritime Organization.

This analysis has been published on Gov.UK at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-maritime-plan-maritime-2050-environment-route-map

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