Green and Sustainable Maritime Shipping for Climate Change and Disaster Mitigation

Abstract

Climate change implications have various domains of effects, each with a varying degree of significance and onset. The intensifying pattern of extreme weather temperatures, hurricanes, flooding, drought, and forest fires has arisen credible concerns to the field of Disaster Management. As impacts continue to increase in severity and frequency, the level of upkeep is becoming more challenging and increasingly overwhelming. All prescribed natural events have a track record of thousands of years which renders the distinguishing factors to be pattern-based in a comparative-based analysis. It has been scientifically debated that emissions of Green House Gases (GHG) contribute negatively to increasing atmospheric temperatures which correspond to a diverse range of consequences. Herewith, measures to reduce GHG emissions and capture atmospheric can be directly correlated to reduce climate change which subsequently leads to disaster mitigation. A common pitfall to accelerated change is the inadvertent consequences due to technological limitations or other overlooked effects. Exploitation of these inadvertencies encourages technical development as well as deters initiatives away from iatrogenics. Herewith, the value of this crossover research is mutually constructive to all fields by way of symbiosis. Decarbonizing maritime shipping lie at a unique interposition between prescribed domains of relevance. This relationship is further validated by the reversal of concept known as balancing loop complex. The International Maritime Organization’s goal of absolute-zero emissions is an auspicious point of GHG neutrality where irreducible emissions are neutralized via natural, industrial, and/or socioeconomic solutions. This ambitions outlook is constrained by limitations and insufficiencies in technology, business drivers and incentives, and regulatory enablement. Sustainable financing as a growing incentive combines three success elements predominantly known as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG). A successful achievement of this interwoven scope has direct and indirect feeds to the overarching climate strategy sat forth by the United Nations. Such strategy encompasses various climate-change initiatives categorized in 17 clusters known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).