Negotiation of the IMO Net-Zero Framework
Following the 2023 strategy, the Marine Environment Protection Committee developed mid-term measures — a greenhouse gas intensity standard for marine fuels coupled to a pricing mechanism for ships exceeding it — which would constitute the first sector-wide global carbon price. The measures were approved at committee level during 2025 and their formal adoption became the subject of intense diplomatic contestation, including reported pressure from states opposed to the pricing element and a postponement of the adoption session. **This record is deliberately marked uncertain.** The author's knowledge ends before the outcome, and no source was retrievable in this session; the framework's legal status as of August 2026 is genuinely unknown here and must be established by a curator before this event is presented to a reader as settled.
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Subjects
- International Maritime Organization · organisation · United Kingdom · not located
- International shipping · industry sector · global · not located
Evidence
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2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ships
Supports the net-zero-by-or-around-2050 level of ambition, the indicative checkpoints for 2030 and 2040, and the mandate to develop a technical fuel standard and an economic pricing mechanism as mid-term measures. V55 verification basis: not retrieved in this session, and the resolution number is deliberately omitted because it could not be confirmed. The status of the resulting Net-Zero Framework as of August 2026 is not covered by this record and is marked uncertain on the corresponding event.
International Maritime Organization, Marine Environment Protection Committee · 2023-07 · Partly verified
Adopted at the eightieth session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee, July 2023
Recorded on International Maritime Organization
- The IMO adopts its revised greenhouse gas strategy
- Negotiation of the IMO Net-Zero Framework
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