Study finds lowering shipping emissions worsens climate change

A new study finds that while IMO2020 aims to reduce harmful pollutants, it also accelerates warming associated with future climate ...

Shipping Pollution Curbs Made Climate Change Worse ... - Forbes

The research is controversial on two counts: one is that some climate scientists dispute the extent to which global shipping emissions—or a ...

Geoengineering study: Shipping regulation made climate change ...

A sweeping regulatory change in 2020 to slash air pollution from the world's ships could have played a role in boosting global average temperatures.

Unintended warming: How reduced ship emissions may accelerate ...

In 2020, new international shipping regulations drastically cut sulfur emissions from ships, leading to a sharp reduction in the formation of bright, ...

expert reaction to sulphur reductions in shipping fuel and increased ...

For many people, a shift to a lower-sulphur shipping fuel that causes less air pollution and reduces aerosol emissions is a move away from human ...

Has Reducing Ship Emissions Brought Forward Global Warming?

Studies estimate the global average change in radiative forcing due to all shipping in the range of −0.06 to −0.6 Wm−2 (Yuan et al., 2022), or ...

Analysis: How low-sulphur shipping rules are affecting global warming

Carbon Brief analysis shows that the likely side-effect of the 2020 regulations to cut air pollution from shipping is to increase global temperatures by around ...

Reduction in shipping pollution has increased global warming

By reducing sulfur dioxide and fine particulate matter spewed by ships, the change would help reduce strokes, asthma, lung cancer, and other ...

How reduced ship emissions may accelerate climate change

In a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers show that there has been a slight warming effect since these regulations ...

Cleaner ship emissions may warm the planet far faster than expected

A 2020 rule that slashed air pollution from ships may have boosted global temperatures sooner than thought, helping to explain why 2023 was ...

Pollution Paradox: How Cleaning Up Smog Drives Ocean Warming

New research indicates that the decline in smog particles from China's air cleanups caused the recent extreme heat waves in the Pacific.

Study finds health risks in switching ships from diesel to ammonia fuel

It has been estimated that maritime shipping accounts for almost 3 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions and the industry's negative ...

Climate impact of shipping - Transport & Environment

At current growth rates, shipping could represent some 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Which measures could reduce its contribution to climate ...

Why shipping faces a showdown over greenhouse gas - BBC

The shipping industry's current plans only envisage a halving of emissions by the middle of this century, a commitment that scientists say is ...

The Climate Time Bomb in the Atmosphere - The American Prospect

A study released this week found that ocean shipping from just 18 large US retail brands produces 3.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

NASA Study Finds Evidence That Fuel Regulation Reduced Air ...

A global standard limiting sulfur in ship fuel reduced artificial “ship track” clouds to record-low levels in 2020.

How disruption from Houthi attacks in the Red Sea is driving up ...

Shipping, which accounts for 2.9% of global CO2 emissions, has largely escaped taxation because the high seas are not in the jurisdiction of any ...

Your climate change goals may have a maritime shipping problem

The industry currently accounts for a relatively small share of global CO2 emissions — between 2% and 3% according to S&P Global Platts ...

Perspectives on shipping emissions and their impacts on the surface ...

This resulted in major changes in air emissions from shipping with implications on their environmental impacts, but observational studies remain ...

Is IMO 2020 shipping regulation worsening global warming?

The regulation has successfully cleared shipping-induced sulfur pollution from the air. A study released by NASA in October 2022 found that ship ...