Environmental Audit Committee - Fourth Report
Reducing CO2 and other emissions from shipping

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 12 May 2009.

Contents

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Terms of Reference

Summary

Introduction

Size and nature of the problem

Focus of this inquiry

Shipping and global climate change goals

Progress of international negotiations to tackle CO2 from shipping

Progress towards an international agreement

The role of the UK in international negotiations

Shipping emissions and the Climate Change Act

Accounting for emissions from shipping

Measuring emissions from shipping

Mitigating emissions from shipping

The scope for cutting emissions
Cutting emissions through new technology

Operational efficiencies

Realising the potential to cut emissions

Government investment

Putting a price on carbon to encourage emissions reductions

The contribution of trading schemes to funding for adaptation

The IMO Design Index and Operational Index

Portside regulations

Air quality and non-CO2 contributions to climate change

Cold ironing

Conclusion

Conclusions and recommendations

Annex

Environmental Audit Committee Visit to Brussels, 4 November 2008

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of written evidence

List of unprinted evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence

Tuesday 21 October 2008

Tuesday 28 October 2008

Tuesday 18 November 2008

Tuesday 25 November 2008

Written Evidence

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Prepared 1 June 2009