Common Contracts
1 similar Paris Climate Change Agreement contracts
THE PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE AGREEMENT AND THE REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL MARITIME TRANSPORTATIONParis Climate Change Agreement • September 13th, 2018
International maritime transport is a significant source of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly CO2. As such, it is a substantial contributor to global warming. The sector’s share of CO2 is expected to increase considerably if efforts are not made to limit its contribution of GHG emissions. This issue has been on the international climate change regulatory agenda for over two decades now. Nonetheless, the regulation of emissions from international maritime transport is visibly absent in the 2015 landmark Paris Agreement. This thesis attempts to understand the reasons for the non-regulation of international shipping under the Paris agreement. To understand the reasons for the situation, three questions were asked: 1. What is the history of the debate around the inclusion or exclusion of the regulation of the international maritime transport in the international climate regime prior to the Paris Agreement? 2. What has been the role of International Maritime Organiz
