Source · Select Committees · Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 32
32
Accepted in Part
Paragraph: 205
Ensure revised Clean Maritime Plan contains ambitious targets, zero-emission fuel strategy, and shore power measures
Recommendation
The revised Plan will represent a significant policy statement from Ministers in response to the IMO’s revised GHG strategy. It must be cast so as to outstrip the ambition of the IMO’s current strategy, while setting out stretching yet deliverable policy objectives and actions for the UK maritime sector. At a minimum we expect it to contain: • interim and overall targets for emissions from UK domestic and international shipping to 2050, together with a detailed plan to achieve the targets and details of the modelling and assumptions underpinning the targets; • a strategy to supply UK domestic and international shipping with zero-emission fuels derived from hydrogen, together with a strategy to develop facilities for the production, transmission and storage of such fuels, so as to outstrip IMO targets for the replacement of conventional fuels; • measures to leverage the UK’s expertise in shipping law and hydrography so as to support route optimisation measures in global shipping, and • measures to deliver decarbonised shore power to vessels berthed in UK ports, so as to reduce their emissions and improve port air quality.
Government Response Summary
The government accepts this recommendation, stating it is considering options for setting interim and 2050 GHG emission goals for UK domestic maritime in its upcoming strategy and will set out the pathway to meet these. It also commits to continuing support for the IMO's GHG Strategy and developing a new maritime emissions model.
Paragraph Reference:
205
Government Response
Accepted in Part
HM Government
Accepted in Part
The Government accepts this recommendation. The Government is considering options for setting out interim and 2050 goals for the GHG emissions from UK domestic maritime sector in our upcoming strategy. As part of this strategy, we will also set out the pathway to meet these goals, in terms of the reduction in GHG emissions needed, the changing fuel mix needed across the fleet, and the changes in operational and technological efficiency needed to meet them. The Government will also continue to support the IMO’s 2023 GHG Strategy, both through supporting delivery against its interim targets, and pushing for an ambitious review of its targets when it is reviewed in 2028. On modelling, the Government has continued to develop our evidence base on maritime decarbonisation and has developed a new maritime emissions model. This model takes global vessel data from Automated Identification Systems (AIS) and allows for an ‘activity-based’, or ‘vessel- based’, measure of the UK’s share of international shipping emissions to be calculated. Moving forward we will use this new capability to review the methodology used in UK national accounting against the previous method.