Gigantic Shipbuilders under the IMO Mandate of GHG Emission: With Special References to China, Japan and Korea

• Author: Yubing Shi
• Pages: 493-494

Gigantic Shipbuilders under IMO Mandate

493

VII JEAIL 2 (2014)

Yubing Shi

∗

To address greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping, the International

Maritime Organization has adopted technical and operational measures, and

discussed the possibility of adopting market-based measures. China, Japan and South

Korea are major shipbuilding nations in the world, and have differing responses

towards the IMO’s regulatory initiatives. This paper conducts a comparative

assessment of these three countries’ positions on regulatory principles of the

greenhouse gas issue, and concludes that their differentiated perspectives on this

matter reflect their different regulatory interests. It is significant to take their

differentiated interests into account in the developing regulatory regime to avoid

disproportionate burdens being placed on certain countries, in particular developing

countries.

Keywords

Greenhouse Gas, International Shipping, CBDR Principle, China, Japan,

South Korea

Gigantic Shipbuilders

under the IMO Mandate

of GHG Emissions:

With Special References

to China, Japan and Korea

∗ Ph.D. candidate at Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of

Wollongong. M.TCP (Wollongong). B.A. (Beijing Forestry Univ.), LL.M. (Beijing Technology & Business Univ.).

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9257-2166. The author is grateful to Associate Professor Robin Warner and

Professor Warwick Gullett for their comments on some of the issues covered in this paper. The views expressed in this

paper remain the sole responsibility of its author. This research was supported by Global Challenges Ph.D. Scholars

program of University of Wollongong. The author may be contacted at: shiyubing@hotmail.com / Address: ANCORS,

Innovation Campus, University of Wollongong, NSW 2500 Australia.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14330/jeail.2014.7.2.10

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