Micronesian Center for Sustainable Transport (MCST) Blog

  H.E. Ambassador Albon T, Ishoda, Republic for the Marshall Islands Statement to "The Getting to Zero Coalition [1]    7th December Webinar:  Synthesis of Shipping decarbonisation at COP26 and MEPC77.   What does equitable transition look like in practice? That is a very good question and one that none of us have the answer to. Not yet! But it is critically important that collectively we find that answer. And find it relatively quickly.   Mine is an atoll nation. 2m high. For us, the most climate vulnerable of all, it’s a very simple equation. Stay under 1.5 or stop being a country. Whether that means we will still have a flag to fly over a significant proportion of the world’s fleet is another question.   At the International Maritime Organisation, we are finally coming down to the business end of the wedge. What is the Market-based Measure shipping will adopt? Will it really close the price gap with alternative fuels? And if it does, the most conte...

  Andrew Irvin, Project Officer for Micronesia Centre for Sustainable Transport The International Panel on Climate Change released its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) August 9th, drawing grave conclusions while outlining an increasingly limited set of trajectories to avoid scenarios resulting in catastrophic temperature increases. Rapid decarbonisation is now required even to slow the effects of what is now recognized as inevitable change , including sea level rise which will continue for decades (or perhaps centuries) after net zero GHG emission levels are reached. As a nation dependent upon its maritime industry and shipping services, Fiji has the opportunity to join its island neighbours in leading the global call for shipping decarbonisation in excess of the current, insufficient global targets. Shipping sector In light of the IPCC AR6, and in recognition of the fact that if the shipping sector were nation, it’d be the sixth largest emitter in the world , the Marshall Islands ...