🚢 Is climate multi-laterlism a sinking ship?

😩 Like many of you, I’ve been really taken aback by the IMO’s decision last Friday to suspend the adoption of its planned maritime carbon price by a year.

🌐 Details are starting to emerge on what happened, as shocked negotiators are taking stock of what this means for the IMO, and climate multilateralism in general.

🇺🇲 The tactics employed - especially by the U.S. - were completely unprecedented and caught supporters of this particular regulation off-guard.

🤷 So where do we move from here? And how on earth do we decarbonise sectors like shipping in this new world?

🏛️ Like many, I think we need to brace ourselves for a few tough years ahead. Climate multilateralism is now dictated by geopolitics. The days are gone where deals on climate could be made that went outside, or even against, geopolitical currents.

🤝 In my view, the focus needs to shift to national, and maybe regional (e.g. EU) efforts to keep some momentum going while the world hopefully returns to some sort of reason. Hopefully I will be proven wrong at COP30, but I doubt it…

🎙️ To discuss this hot topic, as well as what this all means for carbon removal within shipping and aviation in particular, the CDR Policy Scoop is thrilled to have Robert Höglund back on the show, who has written extensively on these two hard to abate sectors.

🗓️ Join me and Eve Tamme on Monday, October 27th at 9 am PDT 🇺🇸 / noon EDT 🇺🇸 / 6 pm CEST 🇪🇺for this timely conversation: https://lnkd.in/dCKEvdvD

❓ What’s your take? Where are we heading? What options do we have left now?

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