SHIPPING, THE CPRS AND CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS
Climate change is a significant issue for the shipping industry
in Australia and worldwide. Growing media scrutiny following policy
initiatives by the International Maritime Organisation, the
proposed Australian Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), an
inquiry looking at coastal shipping and incidents such as the
recent Moreton Bay oil spill, means the industry is being called
upon to take immediate action.
At present, CO2 emissions from international shipping amount to
less that 3% of the total world's emissions from all
sources.1 This is a very modest contribution, but in
recent years shipping has been targeted by the media with the
perception that, collectively, ships emit as much CO2 as some
individual industrialized countries.
