Government delegates to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have crept closer toward global greenhouse gas regulations aiming at cutting the carbon intensity of shipping by 40% by 2023. Governments, which are the voting members at the IMO, had identified “further areas of convergence in their positions,” the IMO reports, and have produced a draft legal...

There’s no one-size-fits-all path to shipping decarbonisation, a comprehensive review by the World Maritime University has found. Carried out by academics on behalf of the International Maritime Organization, the snappily-titled report, “Comprehensive impact assessment of the basket of candidate GHG reduction mid-term measures,” noted after a comprehensive literature review that a “wide range of technologies,”...