Inspenet, July 2, 2023.
The expectation of taxing maritime transport is growing, a measure with which it is expected to pay the “climate bill” and which the International Maritime Organization (IMO) will address at a meeting next week, where countries will also be able to set objectives to decarbonise this industry, responsible for 2.9% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The idea of imposing a tax on international maritime transport is not new, as it has been debated for years in the international community with hardly any consensus since, as the head of climate change at Ecologistas en Acción, Javier Andaluz, points out, “there is much reluctance in the sector ” and “it won’t be easy”.
However, experts see how the proposal that calls for a tax starting at $100 per ton of CO2 It has garnered much more political attention following the suggestion, at the initiative of the small island states, that the measure serve to finance the losses and damages fund that the countries agreed to create at the UN climate summit in Sharm el Sheikh (COP27 ) Last December.
The World Bank estimates that a carbon tax on maritime transport could raise between 50,000 and 60,000 million dollars a year, an amount that would serve to alleviate the impact of the climate crisis in the most vulnerable countries, which rich states ( warming chiefs) have pledged to help and is looking for new ways to raise funds.
Thus, the measure is gaining more and more support: at the summit that Paris hosted this month, promoted by French President Emmanuel Macron and the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley to agree on a new global financial pact, more than 20 countries showed themselves to favor of the maritime transport tax, according to the presidency.
Shipping and the climate crisis
The sector of Marine transport, despite his responsibility in the climate crisis (its emissions even exceed those of international aviation), it has been exempt from paying to pollute in frameworks such as the European emissions market, until the recent reform of this regime, included in the ‘Fit for 55’ climate package, decided to force vessels to acquire these permits.
Thus, starting next year, ships that travel between European ports must pay for all the CO 2 they emit and those that do so between ports in the EU and other countries must bear the cost of the CO 2 emitted in half the journey. .
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