IMO, Saudi Arabia Sign Partnership Deals Ship-based Emissions

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The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has signed three partnership agreements with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to support the preparation of a new global project that targets ship-based emissions.
As informed, the partnership will include projects that will tackle biofouling and marine plastic litter and the designing of long-term program to help cut ship emissions. The agreements will see $509,000 going to the three environmental initiatives.
Under the first agreement, around $400,000 will be used to fund a 12-month preparatory phase of a new long-term initiative IMO CARES, which will include coordinated actions to reduce emissions from shipping.
The project aims to accelerate the demonstration of green technologies and their deployment globally in a manner that facilitates blue economic growth in developing regions.
It will build on and complement other ongoing work by IMO and connects this work to various R&D and innovation initiatives around the world. This work includes Green Voyage 2050, a project which was launched in May 2019 to support states on their decarbonisation path.,,reports World Maritime News.


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