Call for Abstracts! CIL-CLIMA Conference on the Decarbonization of Shipping and Alternative Fuels! 12 – 13 February 2025, Singapore!
The NUS Centre for International Law (CIL) and the Center for Climate Change Law and Governance (CLIMA) Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen welcome proposals for paper presentations for the conference ‘Decarbonization of Shipping and Alternative Fuels’, which will take place in Singapore on Wednesday-Thursday, 12-13 February 2025.
Conference Background and Overarching Questions
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) devised a Greenhouse Gas reduction Strategy in 2018 detailing its ambitions to decarbonize shipping. The latest iteration of the GHG Strategy was adopted by the IMO’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) in 2023 and is also known as the “2023 Strategy” or “Revised Strategy”. This strategy outlines a GHG emissions reduction target of achieving net-zero emissions based on 2008 baseline levels by 2050 and sets out interim checkpoints every decade in 2030 and 2040 respectively. It further states a timeline of short-term (2018-2023), mid-term (2025-2030), and long-term (beyond 2030) measures to implement the 2030 to 2050 emissions reduction targets.
Conference Themes
The conference is organized around thematic sessions addressing the legal and/or regulatory aspects of the following topics (non-exhaustive list):
- IMO Developments and Efforts after the 2023 GHG Strategy
- Technology & Safety,
- Pollution, Prevention, Response and Co-operation (PPRC)
- Liability & Compensation
- Crew Training
- Nuclear Powered Merchant Ships
- Just & Equitable Transition and Energy Justice
- Lifecycle Accounting
- Domestic and regional regulatory approaches
- Environmental Benefits and Disadvantages of Alternative Fuels
- Availability of Alternative Fuels Supply
This conference is open to scholars with an interest in shipping, energy transition and climate change. The conference will include papers presented by invited participants as well as authors selected through this call for abstracts. We aim to cover a diverse range of perspectives on and approaches to the conference theme, while ensuring a balanced representation of gender and levels of seniority. For that reason, we especially encourage early career researchers to submit proposals.
Proposals should be submitted by the 1st of November 2024 to [email protected]. Authors will be informed of the final decision by the 15th of November 2024.
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