Kick the Habit: A UN Guide to Climate Neutrality

How much is emitted by ships?

“ The world's burgeoning shipping fleet currently emits 1.21 thousand million tonnes [ of CO 2 ] a year, the draft UN report seen by the Guardian says, constituting nearly 4.5% of world emissions.”

2007 estimates

Million tons of CO 2

1 210

1996 estimates

800

“The shipping sector’s share of the global CO2 emissions in 2007, due to the significant increase in world trade, is at present about 3 % .” [around 800 million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year]

437

Source: Study of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ships, Final Report to the International Maritime Organization, March 2000 .

Sources: Inputs from the International Maritime Organization (IMO); John Vidal, “ Shipping boom fuels rising tide of global CO 2 emissions ”, The Guardian, 13 February 2008; www.oceana.org/climate.

1990 and 2003 by 80 per cent. According to an unpublished report by the International Maritime Organisation, shipping emitted around 800 million tonnes of CO 2 in 2007, which amounts to almost three per cent of global emissions. This means shipping related CO 2 emissions have almost doubled over the past ten years. Other sources are indicating even higher figures, up to 1210 million tonnes or nearly 4.5 per cent of global CO 2 emissions.

Shipping one tonne of goods 100 kilometres

... by medium-haul plane (5 000 to 8 000 km)

by short-haul plane (less than 5 000 km)

209

330

... by long-haul plane (more than 8 000 km)

Shipping one tonne of goods 100 kilometres by train in Europe

2,3

117

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