Scandinavian Maritime Fair

While facilitating global trade with immense economic significance, maritime shipping also poses substantial environmental challenges to the ocean’s ecological equilibrium. It is about more than just reducing carbon emissions – this session will address the various elements that comprise long term sustainability in shipping looking at minimizing air and water pollution and promoting ecological balance. Additionally, green financing can play a crucial role in supporting these efforts.

MODERATOR:
Thomas Roslyng Olesen, Maritime Research Alliance

SPEAKERS:
Christopher Rex, Head of Sustainability & Research, Danish Ship Finance
How to finance the green transition 

Simon Bennett, Deputy Secretary General of the International Chamber of Shipping  
The pathway to meeting IMO’s GHG reduction targets
2024 will be an important year for meeting IMO’s ambitious GHG reduction targets to deliver net zero emissions from international shipping, by or around 2050. IMO member states are now creating the global regulatory framework to catalyze the transition in shipping, including a maritime GHG emissions pricing mechanism for adoption in 2025.

Ida-Maja Hassellöv, Professor Maritime Environmental Science, Chalmers (SE)

Marja Koski, Professor, DTU Aqua
Chemical discharges from shipping and biodiversity at the base of the marine food-webs  
Ocean’s and coastal seas are at the heart of the global biodiversity crises. For instance, a minimum amount of Danish seas can be characterized as having a good environmental status, and pollution from both land and sea-based sources contribute to the current poor state of the marine environment. Shipping needs to address its effects on marine biodiversity – however, it is not always clear what these effects could be. I will give an overview of the potential effects of diverse chemical discharges from shipping on plankton – the base of the marine food-web that we human’s depend on.

Janne Fritt-Rasmussen, Senior Researcher, Aarhus University 

Jakob Steffensen, Director for Biodiversity and Eco-Innovation, DFDS