Danish Shipping: Fleet-based CO2 compliance is a shorter way for green transition
May 6, 2021,
by
Naida Hakirevic
The path to lower CO2 emissions from ships could be shorter by choosing a fleet-based approach to efficiency requirements, a new analysis prepared for Danish Shipping by CE Delft shows.
If new low- and zero-emission ships are to enter into operation and more expensive climate-neutral fuels are to gain acceptance by the end of this decade, CO2 regulation should be possible on the basis of a shipping company’s fleet and not of an individual ship.
Specifically, instead of requiring that all ships of a company meet the required carbon intensity indicator (CII) individually, companies could opt to comply by demonstrating that their fleet (or a number of their ships) does not emit more than it would if all ships would meet the required CII.