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According to an article in Sunday Times 24 July 2011 by Karl West, the United Nations body International Maritime Organization (IMO) has put down the initial framework for "greening" the world's shipping industry. The meeting took place in London, and will force ships over 400 ton to save 10% in fuel by 2013, 20% by 2020 to 2024, and 30% after 2024.

Among the suggestions are the use of giant kites, blowing air into the water passing the ships hull, and make slower delivery. All this is estimated, by UN-IMO, to save about 0.6% in human contributed CO2 by 2050, costing the industry between £2.3 billion and £9.6 billion.

The regulatory regime will come into force from January 2013, but a group of countries led by China, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and South Africa have secured a waiver for new ships registered in developing countries until 2019. They claim they need more time to acquire advanced technologies to cut pollution.

Klimabedrag conclusion:

Shipping companies are already doing all they can to save fuel, which is an important part of the shipping cost. Surely they do not need dictates from a political body, and to be babysitted by babysitters, who already have worsened our energy situation considerable with windmills, fuel from food products, etc.
It is the twelfth hour for the worlds shipping organisations to throw UN-IMO overboard, if we are to avoid yet another disaster like the "look green" electricity generation ideology. Ships building and performance optimisation is a job for engineers - not for politicians.

Invention For Big Financial Gain

Sir Richard Branson is the founder of the Carbon War Room, which is using very telling phrases like "Creating Climate Wealth" to attract business. On their website you can find promotion for "green" technologies and great opportunities to invest in the big "green" business. Not that there is anything wrong in coming up with new ideas and more investment for better technologies. The problem is their fanatic focus on reducing CO2 (plant food) contribution, no matter the cost in financial and environmental damage. UN-IPCC, UN-IMO, Richard Branson's Carbon War Room, Al Gore's Generation Investment Management, Greenpeace, WWF, and the lot, are profit and ideology driven. They are not primarily concerned about scientific common sense and ultimately what's best for humans, environment, health, and the average people's economy and quality of life. They appear "green" by their word, but if you invest a bit of detective work, it is clear that all the "green" stuff has little to do with Global Warming or Climate Change. This becomes abundantly clear when the same people and organisations dare to classify CO2, the worlds most fundamental gas for sustaining life on the planet, as a pollutant.