When it comes to launching the energy transition, maritime policy is one of the key battlegrounds.
According to the latest research, sea levels will rise considerably by 2100, putting about 14 per cent of the world’s major maritime ports at risk of coastal flooding and erosion.
Shipping is responsible for three per cent of global CO2 emissions, which have increased 32 per cent over the past 20 years.
At least US$1 trillion will have to be invested between 2030 and 2050 to reduce shipping’s carbon footprint by 50 per cent by 2050.
The golden age of oil cannot will not hold for much longer, given its environmental impact and increasing scarcity.
The French government’s National Low-Carbon Strategy aims to reduce emissions from the industrial sector by 35 per cent by 2030 and 81 per cent by 2050.
To meet these targets, ports are working to become carbon-neutral by redesigning their logistical operations , as part of an industrial reconversion approach.
A 2021 study by the Getting to Zero coalition found that zero-carbon fuels had to represent at least five per cent of the fuel mix by 2030 for international shipping to comply with the Paris Agreement.
In the medium term, the objective is to reach a capacity of 5.2 to 6.5 Gigawatts of offshore wind energy in France by 2028.
The forthcoming offshore wind farm near Quai Hermann du Pasquier in the city of Le Havre, which will launch in 2022, is being presented as the “biggest industrial renewable energy project in France,” and symbolizes the port’s industrial and energetic transition.
Development projects based on an entirely oil-based economy and the globalized boom in shipping container transport in the second half of the 20th century disconnected city and port at every level.
For port cities, where ships coexist with residents, industry, businesses and tourism, pollution has motivated citizens into action.
The La Rochelle Zero Carbon Territory project, where the greater urban area aims to become carbon neutral by 2040, the energy transition is being undertaken through concerted planning between the city and its port.
Although the environmental challenge is clearly huge and complicated, this energy transition gives us the opportunity to reinterpret ports as laboratories, and to test new practices and technologies.
Ports have always been showcases of industrial revolution, with the arrival of steam, propellers and then metal hulls.
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