When the Aspen Institute Shipping Decarbonization Initiative launched Cargo Owners for Zero Emission Vessels (coZEV) in 2021, multinational

Strong IMO action would dramatically accelerate a virtuous cycle of investment across the value chain.

The Energy and Environment’s coZEV initiative releases a new ambition statement.

Accelerating shipping decarbonization will need to involve a range of solutions and significant public and private sector investment.

Shipping vessels are still powered by fossil fuels, making the oft-forgotten industry a massive emitter of greenhouse gases.

On June 14, 2020, just days after she became the first woman ever to visit the deepest point of the global ocean, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, former NASA astronaut and NOAA Administrator Dr. Kathryn Sullivan spoke with the Aspen High Seas Initiative’s Executive Director, Michael Conathan.

The statement was released on February 18, 2020 by a group of former foreign ministers from around the world who met recently to discuss one of the most urgent challenges of our time: the deepening global environmental crisis.

Combatting climate change and mass biodiversity loss requires a global movement.

A tide of threats against the ocean is rising, but pioneering ocean scientist and advocate Dr. Sylvia Earle, co-chair of the Aspen High Seas Initiative, has a solution.