from WP6 report of the ABC Impacts project
MEPC is IMO's senior technical body on marine pollution related matters.
Its work is supported by a number of Sub-Committees.
It is only in 2003 that IMO adopted a specific resolution on the climate impacts of ships : "IMO policies and practices related to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships" (resolution A.963(23)), based on a background study.
In 2004, the MEPC tried to develop "Draft Guidelines on the CO2 Indexing Scheme" in order to promote the use of a CO2 index per ship (taking into account the six Kyoto GHGs according to their respective global warming potential) as a tool for environmental policies applied to ships in IMO Member States.
IMO's structure
from WP6 report of the ABC Impacts project
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