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Shipping is one of those things that’s just supposed to work. Post-Titanic, people decided they didn’t want maritime transport to be particularly sexy or interesting (also known as ‘dramatic’).
By Carly Hicks, Chief Strategy and Impact Officer & Legal Director at Opportunity Green At Opportunity Green, we use law, policy and economics to take bold climate action and we believe that using the law can help us to speed up decarbonisation pathways. Greenwashing is increasingly a key area of focus for regulators everywhere. Companies are facing civil and even criminal liability where their environmental claims are shown to be misleading.
On my way home from a recent holiday in France, I drove past Saint Nazaire shipyard. On the dry dock, dwarfing everything around it, was Royal Caribbean’s new cruise ship under construction – Utopia of the Seas. It will be the company’s first cruise ship in its class to be powered by liquified natural gas, or LNG. LNG is a fossil fuel whose use is not consistent with the Paris Agreement 1.5C temperature goal.
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