COP27 failed to deliver much in the way of progress. For shipping, though, the next steps in the IMO are what will determine the trajectory of whatever happens next. Fail to agree the detail and a complex, costly future awaits. There are positive signs that shipping is at least now having the right conversations, but is this too little, too late? This week’s edition of the Lloyd’s List Podcast explores the impact of climate talks on shipping and what happens next.

Promises are not progress, but there is at least a wider conversation happening about shipping at this year’s COP27 climate summit in Egypt. One week into the negotiations we take stock and review whether shipping is having a good COP or a bad COP

Moving to a multi-fuel future with multiple fuel infrastructures and supply chains is going to require a wholesale reappraisal of risk and safety standards across various industries, but has that been the priority in the race to decarbonise? Lloyd’s Register chief executive Nick Brown and Dr Ruth Boumphrey, chief executive of Lloyd’s Register Foundation, discuss why safety needs to be at the heart of shipping’s green agenda

It seemed clear to everyone gathering in New York that the acceleration needed to move the shipping industry closer to the 1.5°C scenario will require unprecedented regulatory intervention, radical scaling of alternative fuel production and fleet readiness, disruptive technology inventions and substantial willingness to invest. But is shipping making any progress towards those goals?