IMERS International Maritime Emission Reduction Scheme

IMERS publicly available key presentations and documents are listed below in the reverse chronological order (note that presentations from Autumn 2009 onwards still need to be added):
(on adoption of IMERS you might check the section Buy-in|Achievements)

• Common but Differentiated Way Forward to Emissions from International Transport (0.4 Mb), presented at the Carbon Forum Asia, Singapore, 26 - 27 Oct 2009.
  
• Beyond Offsetting of Emissions from International Transport (0.2 Mb), debated at the 4th Latin America Carbon Forum, Panama City, 24-26 June 2009.
  
• Equitable Financing & Reducing Emissions from International Transport (0.4 Mb), from the dedicated IMERS side event at the Bonn Climate Change Talks, June 2009.
  
• CO2 emissions: an opportunity for shipping companies? , a presentation from the Eurosif/UKSIF shipping event at Henderson Global Investors, London, March 2009.
  
• A differentiated levy on fuel , invited presentation at the UNCTAD expert meeting on "Maritime Transport and Climate Change Challenge". Accompanied by a formal submission .
  
• Our shortest presentation on differentiated IMERS has been made at the conference on ICT for Sustainable Future (in just over 5 minutes). See IMERS description in 30 words.
  
• Presentation and debate at COP 14 on CBDR for international transport (0.4 Mb) has produced the following Message & Summary from the Event .
  
• Impacts of market-based instruments & The search for a Global but Differentiated policy (0.3MB).
  A presentation from a side event organised by WWF UK at the IMO MEPC 58 session, London, 6-10 October 2008. It includes the most recent IMERS proposal for Global but Differentiated Policy for a GHG market-based instrument for shipping.
  
• Emerging discussions on Financing mitigation and adaptation (0.5MB).
  IMERS was introduced as an example to raise innovative financing for mitigation and adaptation at a Workshop on Aviation and Carbon Markets, Montreal, 18-19 June 2008, organised by ICAO. Kindly presented by Erik Haites.
  
• Bunker Fuel Emissions, Adaptation Funding & Technology Transformation (0.8 Mb).
  Presentation from our official side event at the Bonn Climate Change Talks, 2-13 June 2008.
  
  
• Case study on Innovation in Climate Change Diplomacy (0.5MB).
  
  The case was discussed at the International Conference on Climate Change Diplomacy, Malta, 7-8 February 2008, organised by DiploFoundation .
  
• Bunker emissions & adaptation funding (0.9 MB) -
  a presentation from our official side event in Bali during the UNFCCC COP 13
  
  
• IMERS synopsis (0.1 MB) -
  a special 2-pager with all the scheme details prepared for the UN climate change conference in Bali in Dec 2007 (UNFCCC COP 13)
  
• Data requirements for IMERS (0.6 MB) -
  as presented at the Technical workshop on Emissions from aviation and maritime transport, Oslo, Norway, 4-5 Oct 2007.
  
• Innovative Financing and Environment (1.6 MB) -
  a presentation for a roundtable discussion at the 3rd Plenary Meeting
  of the Leading Group on Solidarity Levies to Fund Development, Seoul, Korea, 3-4 Sept, 2007 (on invitation of Foreign Office of Korea). Also available, The Way Forward (0.2 MB), summary from the roundtable on innovative financing and environment.
  
• A working 1-page example -
  how am IMERS scheme could work (July 2007)
  
• An Emission Reduction Scheme (0.3 MB) -
  a supporting document prepared for the MEPC 56 with the scheme main details
  
• Shipping case for action (0.4 MB) -
  that quantifies CO2 emission avoidance potential and benefits of early action; prepared as background working document for the IMO MEPC 56 in July 2007
  
• Preparatory slides MEPC 56/4/9 (0.7 MB) -
  short presentation used for preparatory briefings with around 30 delegations to allow more informed positions at the MEPC 56 (used throughout June 2007)
  
• Submission MEPC 56/4/9 by Norway -
  submission to the influential IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee 56th session
  submitted in early May 2007 (not generally available in all countries, I'm afraid)
  
• Initial shipping case for action (March 07) (0.7 MB) -
  initial case for action prepared for and submitted to secretariats of UNFCCC and IMO in March 2007
  
• Synopsis for International Maritime Climate Change Fund (0.4 MB) -
  initial synopsis for climate change as discussed with the secretariats of IMO and UNFCCC in March 2007 (IMO = International Maritime Organization,
  UNFCCC = United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; )
  
  
• Aviation: Comparison of Charge & Cap with emissions trading (0.2 MB) -
  a comparative table showing key design elements for emission trading and the proposed hybrid "Charge & Cap" scheme; the comparative table uses the attributes defined by ICAO in 2004 (February 2007)
  
• Aviation: FAQs for the International Aviation Climate Change Fund (0.2 MB) -
  frequently asked questions accompanying the IACC Fund proposal (February 2007)
  
• Aviation: Synopsis for International Aviation Climate Change Fund (IACC Fund) (0.2 MB) -
  initial synopsis for climate change fund prepared for and submitted to the top 12 airlines companies and the ICAO secretariat in February 2007
  (ICAO = International Civil Aviation Organization)
  
  
• Air travel: IATAL (0.7 MB document), an International Air Travel Adaptation Levy, by Benito Müller and Cameron Hepburn (Oct 2006). The case for innovative adaptation financing presented in IATAL was a major influence to create the idea of the IACC Fund and subsequently the IMERS initiative.