FRIEND OF HIGH AMBITION - EU/PACIFIC COOPERATION ON IMO GHG EMISSION REDUCTION

FRIEND OF HIGH AMBITION - EU/PACIFIC COOPERATION ON IMO GHG EMISSION REDUCTION

NICOLAS UDREA (FRANCE): BENOIT ADAM (BELGIUM): KARIN JACOBS (THE NETHERLANDS)

CLIMAT CHANGE: A NEW TOPIC FOR IMO SAFETY AT SEA (MSC) PROTECTION OF MARINE ENVIRONEMENT (MEPC) Derived from security Protection for pollution IS IMO THE RIGHT INSTITUTION TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE?

YES BECAUSE: It gathers the biggest quantity and the best quality of expertise on international shipping. Shipping is a very specific activity: Which is the blood of international economy. That needs to be managed on an international level

LIMITS: IMO is slow. Needs consensus to go forward Presence of lobbies like in any other organization good conscience: as the most energy efficient mean of transport considers itself as not responsible of the increase of transport demand

IMO GOES SLOW BUT GOES STEADY AND SURELY:

MAY 2014 MEPC 66 (MRV/DCS) 3 STEPS APPROACH: 1 Data collection (2019) 2 assessment of data (2020) 3 decision making (2022) The three-step approach: a dogma for some countries not wanting to discuss a target or measure before the end of Steps 1 and 2. 2022

Marshall Island submission MEPC 68/5/1 : Setting a reduction target and agreeing associated measures for international shipping In this submission, the Marshall Islands provide the justification for and request the Committee to undertake the work necessary to establish a GHG emission reduction target for international shipping consistent with keeping global warming below 1.5 C and to agree the measures necessary to reach that target Support by several European states (Norway, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, and the EC 2015 A NEW HOPE April 2015 MEPC 68: Strategic input and a new hope from the Pacific

2015 A NEW HOPE September 2015: Birth of the Euro Pacific partnership. Diner during the intersessional session for IMO DCS RMI, VANUATU, USP, UCL, FRANCE, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, NORWAY, EC Call for help from the RMI

2015 A NEW HOPE COP 21 and Paris Agreement "(a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 C above preindustrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C above preindustrial levels,.." Article 4 1. In order to achieve the long-term temperature goal set out in Article 2, Parties aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, recognizing that peaking will take longer for developing country Parties,. to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century,

2015 A NEW HOPE COP 21 and Paris Agreement APPLICABILITY TO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING International shipping not quoted in the agreement, but is included as the agreement address all anthropogenic emissions. Not included in the INDC because of its international dimension But international shipping has to do its share in the global effort!

ACTIVITY SINCE MEPC 68 MAY 2016 MEPC 69 : SUBMISSION MEPC 69/7/2 PACIFIC: the Marshall Islands and Solomon Islands PRESIDENT OF COP 21: France PRESIDENT OF COP 22: Morocco EUROPE: Belgium, France, Germany, International shipping is called upon to contribute its fair share to the international community's efforts to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The co-sponsors invite the Committee to develop a work plan to define this fair share. The MEPC agreed to set up a working group to further discuss the subject. First achievement of the EU PACIFIC cooperation

ACTIVITY SINCE MEPC 68 OCTOBER 2016 : MEPC 70 : SUBMISSION MEPC 70/7/6 and MEPC 70/7/13 PACIFIC: The Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands and Tonga OTHER SIDS: Antigua and Barbuda PRESIDENT OF COP 21: France PRESIDENT OF COP 22: Morocco EUROPE: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands and Monaco. AFRICA: Cote d Ivoire

ACTIVITY SINCE MEPC 68 OCTOBER 2016 : MEPC 70 : SUBMISSION MEPC 70/7/6 and MEPC 70/7/13 70/7/6 Responding to the outcome of the debate at MEPC 69, this document reiterates the need for IMO to define the fair share of international shipping in the global effort to limit the increase of global average temperature. It underlines that the concept is open for debate, that it is complimentary to the three-step approach, and that the fair share does not imply in itself a transport costs increase. 70/7/13 Responding to submissions made to MEPC 70 agenda item 7 on the topic of fair share and long-term objectives, and in particular document MEPC 70/7/6, this document provides an exploration of methods for identifying fair share (step 3 in the work plan of document MEPC 70/7/6), as well as a clarification of the relation between fair share and transport cost

II MEPC 70 and IMO Council endorsed the holding of further intersessional meetings on the reduction of GHG emissions from ships during the current and the next biennium of IMO (the first one will take place from 26 to 30 june 2017, before MEPC 71 session. ACTIVITY SINCE MEPC 68 ACHIEVEMENTS I IMO MEPC 70 adopted a Roadmap for developing a "Comprehensive IMO Strategy on reduction of GHG emissions from ships", 2 MAJOR STEPS : SPRING 2018 : (MEPC 72) Adoption of an initial IMO Strategy, including, inter alia, a list of candidate short-, mid- and long term further measures with possible timelines, to be revised as appropriate as additional information becomes available SPRING 2023 : (MEPC 80) Adoption of Revised IMO Strategy, including short-, mid- and long-term further measure(s), as required, with implementation schedules

OUR GOALS FOR THE INITIAL STRATEGY IN 2018 Agree at the IMO that international shipping should reduce its emission and have its fair share That the intitial IMO strategy of 2018 be as ambitious as possible, in line with the well below 2 degrees Paris objective and aiming at 1.5 c Quantification of the level of ambition A list of possible emission reduction measures including market based measures Consider the effect of measures on possible transport costs and its impact on

SPONSORSHIPS FOR NEXT MEPC MEETING Tonga, Fiji, France, Kiribati, RMI, Solomon Islands, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, international port associations, and..?

IMPORTANCE OF THE EU - PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP ADVANTAGES OF THE PACIFIC COUNTRIES 1. Legitimacy (vulnerability to climate change, registers for some, 2. Experience 3. Regional shipping expertise

IMPORTANCE OF THE EU - PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP ADVANTAGES OF EU 1. expertise 2. Budget 3. influence

IMPORTANCE OF THE EU - PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP WHAT CAN IT BRING? TO AGREE ON AN AMBITIOUS INITIAL STRATEGY 1. Cooperation on the IMO GHG policy and measures 2. Lobby at IMO to gather a large support SYNERGIES / LINKING CLIMATE CHANGE TO TRANSPORT

IMPORTANCE OF THE EU - PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP INSTRUMENTS / TOOLS : BUDDY APPROACH FIDJI FRANCE TONGA NETHERLAND RMI GERMANY SOLOMON BELGIUM

IMPORTANCE OF THE EU - PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP WHAT CAN IT BRING? REGIONAL COLLABORATION Germany - RMI (and the MSTC) Work in progress

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