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Recommendation 30
30
Accepted
Press for global market-based measure for international shipping at IMO level by 2028
Recommendation
The Government must press for a global market-based measure for international shipping to be adopted and implemented at IMO level by the end of the current GHG Strategy period in 2028. To avoid ‘double counting’, any IMO measure ought to be drafted so as not to impede the operation of any national or regional economic measures that are equivalent in both scope and ambition to its own global measure. (Paragraph 200) Relaunching the Clean Maritime Plan
Government Response Summary
The government accepts the recommendation, committing to champion the adoption of an international shipping levy at the IMO's 83rd MEPC in April 2025, to take effect in 2027, and will seek to avoid double counting with other GHG pricing schemes.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
The Government accepts this recommendation. The Government is clear that a global mechanism for pricing GHG emissions through the IMO is key to delivering on the 2023 IMO GHG Strategy. The Prime Minister, in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2024, stated ‘we must put a price on the true cost of emissions through a new levy on global shipping’. The UK is working with other high ambition States to champion the adoption of an international shipping levy at the IMO’s 83rd MEPC in April 2025, which would take effect in 2027. As part of this the Government will seek to avoid double counting or potential overlaps with national or regional domestic GHG pricing schemes.