International Maritime Organization Implements Future Fuels And Technology Project

On March 3, 2023, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a specialized agency of the United Nations that regulates international shipping, announced its research project into the availability of low and zero-carbon marine fuels and technology.¹ The Future Fuels and Technology for Low and Zero-Carbon Shipping Project (FFT Project) is one of several initial steps that the IMO will take to accomplish its priority goal of eliminating or reducing carbon emissions from international shipping. Ultimately, the FFT Project will support the IMO Strategy on Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ships (IMO GHG Strategy).

In June 2022 at its 78^th Session, the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) recognized the challenges to reducing shipping carbon emissions and announced a series of guidelines for interim measures to reduce greenhouse gases.² These guidelines, which entered into force on November 1, 2022, introduced the Energy Efficiency Existing