| Shipping was left out of the historic 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, yet the shipping industry pledged to move forward “in the spirit of Paris.” So far, however, it appears that shipping nations are more intent on sailing around Paris than following its principles.
The Paris agreement on Climate Change achieved two important things: it set goals for reducing the impact of climate change and it identified the measures needed to achieve the ambition. The ambition is to achieve a global average temperature rise “well below” 2 degrees Celsius. The way to achieve it was outlined in the Nationally Determined Contributions...............................................Full Article: Source |