Recommendation 32

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.