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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 AI-generated
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.
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Paragraph Reference:
205
Government Response
Accepted in Part
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted in Part
The Government accepts this recommendation. The Government is considering options to help ensure the delivery and installation of the right infrastructure at the right time in UK ports. This could reduce the emissions from vessels whilst at berth, which make up a substantial fraction of domestic maritime emissions and address their contribution to both local and national air pollution concentrations. The delay in publication of the revised Clean Maritime Plan is highly undesirable, particularly in the light of recent intensification of international dialogues on maritime decarbonisation. Stakeholders understandably demand policy certainty before making substantial investment decisions on decarbonisation strategies. Ministers must therefore update Parliament as soon as possible in the next session on their progress in finalising the review of the Clean Maritime Plan, and commit to a date, not later than three months from the date of State Opening, by which the revision of the Plan will be issued. The update to Parliament must set out the issues which the revised consultations and calls for evidence relevant to maritime decarbonisation.
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