EU: The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has urged the EU to postpone a monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) initiative for ships' carbon dioxide emissions to give the IMO time to launch a global scheme.
Reacting to this week's announcement that EU member states, the European Commission, and the European Parliament had agreed to go ahead with implementing the project, the ICS warned that the plan could conflict with a future IMO scheme.
Legislation to set up the EU scheme, planned for next year, would "complicate and perhaps jeopardise ... delicate negotiations", said the ICS.