Pathway 4.

Energy Efficiency, Conservation, and Fuel Switching in Transportation → Shipping

4.5.9 Voluntary Industry Shipping Restrictions

LPDD Recommendation: “All shipping companies should set GHG emissions reduction goals and work toward achieving them.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Companies with high shipping volumes (e.g., Walmart, IKEA, Nike) could impose supply chain requirements, such as only moving their goods on ships that meet a certain efficiency standard, use a low-carbon fuel, or slow steam.”

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Report, The Promise and Limits of Private Standards in Reducing GHG Emissions from Shipping

Jurisdiction: Private Entities

Examines private standards that aim to mitigate GHG emissions in shipping. Views deficiencies in private standards and assesses the role that law could play in addressing them, including hybrid governance.

Clean Shipping Index

Jurisdiction: Private Entities

An independent labelling system of vessels' environmental performance, providing a practical tool for differentiating port- and fairway fees or choosing more sustainable shipping alternatives.

Clean Cargo Working Group

Jurisdiction: Private Entities

A voluntary initiative of major brands, cargo carriers, and freight forwarders dedicated to reducing the environmental impacts of global goods transportation.

Maersk’s Zero Carbon Efforts

Jurisdiction: Private Entities

Maersk, which operates the world’s largest fleet of container ships, set a goal of zero net operational emissions by 2050, as well as the use of commercially viable carbon neutral vessels by 2030.