The delay leaves the shipping sector in regulatory limbo even as companies, investors, and insurers press ahead with net-zero goals. It also raises fresh questions for legal, commercial, and ...

A delay in charging a global shipping emissions tax could stall critical investments in green fuels, and cause decarbonization efforts across the industry to slow, warned industry stakeholders at a ...

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has voted to adjourn the extraordinary session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) to consider the adoption of draft amendments to ...

Member States at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) today postponed for a year the vote to adopt the Net Zero Framework — a plan to phase out fossil fuels from the maritime sector by 2050.

The member states of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have voted to delay adoption of the Net Zero Framework after strong opposition from the US and Saudi Arabia. Ahead of today’s vote US ...

The United States on Friday threatened to use visa restrictions and sanctions to retaliate against nations that vote in favor of a plan put forward by a United Nations agency to reduce planet-warming ...

Abstract: Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) task aims to match images of the same object captured from various platforms, such as drones and satellites. The primary challenge of CVGL is that the ...

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Geneva, 22 September 2025 — The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) today released a statement in support of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Net-Zero Framework, ...

Abstract: The seismic data are usually limited by the frequency bandwidth and lack significant high-frequency components due to attenuation in the subsurface medium and frequency filtering effects ...

Further negotiations are urgently required if a plausible path towards zero- or near-zero-emission fuel types are to make up 5-10% of shipping’s fuel by 2030. This was key conclusion of the fourth ...

In the run-up to the International Maritime Organization’s Net-Zero Framework vote in October, the headlines seem impossible to reconcile. Some declare the framework too weak to make a difference.