Shipping efficiency
Shippingefficiency is a database that should make it possible to reduce the emission of harmful greenhouse gases worldwide. To this end, the energy efficiency of shipping is to be increased by 30 percent in the medium term. The background to this is the fact that 90 percent of world trade is carried out by ship and that today three percent of global carbon dioxide emissions are caused by shipping.
The database is available online on the Internet. It is a project of the Carbon War Room . This in turn goes back to an initiative by Richard Branson . The database includes ship types such as container freighters , oil tankers , cruise ships and compares ships of one type with one another. The database now includes 60,000 ships, around half of the existing ships. It uses the Energy Efficiency Design Index of the London International Maritime Organization (IMO).
Since global shipping is still not affected by the Kyoto Protocol or the EU emissions trading scheme , and marine diesel is not taxed either, there have so far been no incentives to reduce the pollution of the oceans and air. These incentives are to be created by the database, for example ports staggering their fees.
Energy-efficient ships, for example, have better propellers , they optimize their routes with the aid of computers or use new technologies such as that of Skysails .
The database was presented in December 2010 on the occasion of the UN climate conference in Cancún .
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- ↑ Article on spiegel-online of December 7, 2010 , requested on December 9, 2010