by Paul Delouche, Strategy Director, Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore

Decarbonising shipping in isolation does not make sense.

If we are to make a genuine difference for the climate's sake, then we need a cross-sector approach not only to develop and scale up new fuels - but also to properly evaluate the environmental impact of alternative fuel options, from their production to their use on board.

If we are to achieve true decarbonisation in shipping, we need to assess whether the different fuel options gradually being adopted will actually reduce the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released in the atmosphere.

And we can only do that by taking a well-to-wake (WtW) approach - by looking upstream and across sectors to understand the production and logistics changes occurring as society as a whole develops new sources of power and new fuels.

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