IMAP Lunch Seminar Mitigation of Shipping CO2 Emissions

Neither international treaties nor domestic policies currently control carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from international shipping. This presentation will explore how these emissions could be included in national carbon budgets, where five different options could be used based on the location of industry actors and ships. The analysis shows that a clear majority of CO2 emissions would be distributed to ten countries under each option; however, the top ten countries vary across allocation options and the amount of CO2 emissions allotted to individual countries could increase their carbon budgets thousand-fold or more. The presentation will build on the article H. Selin et al. 2021, Mitigation of CO2 Emissions From International Shipping Through National Allocation, Environmental Research Letters 16: 045009.

Henrik Selin of the BU Pardee School of Global Studies will present.