PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Shipping: Carbon Emissions (10 September 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with representatives of the maritime sector on the role that decarbonising the maritime sector can play in reaching net zero by 2050.

Asked by:
Bob Blackman (Conservative)

The domestic maritime sector falls under the UK’s national net zero target, and in common with the wider economy will need to be decarbonised by 2050 in order to achieve net zero.

The Department has regular meetings with industry and civil society representatives on the issue of decarbonisation, to discuss both domestic Net Zero and the international work to address GHG emissions being undertaken at the International Maritime Organization.

Answered by:
Robert Courts (Conservative)
18 September 2020