European Union’s green push targets shipping emissions

Brussels, May 17, 2021 -The European Union’s ambition to go carbon-neutral by 2050 means slicing greenhouse emissions from shipping by 90 percent as part of a far-reaching plan to shake up the maritime economy, the EU executive said Monday.

“We must change tack and develop a sustainable blue economy where environmental protection and economic activities go hand in hand,” the European Commission’s vice president in charge of the EU’s Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, said.