IMO's work on environmental issues, including energy efficiency, GHG emissions, global sulphur cap and data collection system for fuel oil consumption, formed part of the keynote speech delivered by IMO's Heike Deggim at the Green Tech Conference in Florida, USA (30 May – 1 June). Ms Deggim reiterated IMO's strong commitment to ensuring that shipping meets its environmental obligations, pointing out the approval of a roadmap for developing a comprehensive IMO strategy on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships, among other things. IMO says the conference also looked at how to make the maritime transportation industry more sustainable by sharing information about emerging issues, improved benchmarking, greener technologies, and evolving best practices and special presentation focused on clean ship innovations, underwater noise, and port air emission.
Green Marine is a voluntary environmental programme for the North American marine industry which encourages its participants to reduce their environmental footprint by taking concrete actions.