Moving sustainable shipping forward

However, implementation and enforcement of IMO’s measures remains challenging. The footloose sector is difficult to monitor and enforce. In addition, the industry itself is only slowly moving forward when it comes to adopting Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management Strategies. Using insights from both business administration and global environmental governance, this projects seeks explanations for the lack of environmental improvement in the industry and discusses options to move shipping forward in their environmental management.

Green Shipping: Governance and Innovation for a Sustainable Maritime Supply Chain

The Sauder School of Business of the University of British Columbia (Canada) is leading an international collaborative research network focused on improving the environmental performance of the maritime shipping industry. This Green Shipping Partnership (GSP) is investigating efforts to encourage greener shipping practices and will contribute policy recommendations aimed at reducing the negative impacts of shipping on the environment. Judith van Leeuwen is member of GSP. Video: UBC group is tasked with making the shipping industry greener (GlobalNews)

Publications

• The Potential and Limits of Environmental Disclosure Regulation: A Global Value Chain Perspective Applied to Tanker Shipping — Research@WUR.

Poulsen, R. T., Ponte, S., van Leeuwen, J., & Rehmatulla, N. (2021). The Potential and Limits of Environmental Disclosure Regulation: A Global Value Chain Perspective Applied to Tanker Shipping. Global Environmental Politics, 21(2), 99-120.

• Capturing a Moving Target: Decarbonizing Shipping through Informational Governance

van Leeuwen, J. (2019). Capturing a Moving Target: Decarbonizing Shipping through Informational Governance. In P. G. Harris (Ed.), Climate Change and Ocean Governance: Politics and Policy for Threatened Seas (pp. 376-392). Cambridge University Press.

• Greening international shipping through private governance: a case study on the Clean Shipping Project

L Wuisan, J van Leeuwen, CSA van Koppen (2012): Marine Policy, 36 (1), 165-173

• The regionalization of maritime governance: Towards a polycentric governance system for sustainable shipping in the European Union

J van Leeuwen (2015) Ocean & Coastal Management 117 . - p. 23 - 31.

• Governing the Artic in the era of the Anthropocene: Does corporate authority matter in Arctic shipping governance?

J van Leeuwen (2016) In: Environmental Politics and Governance in the Anthropocene / Pattberg, Philipp, Zelli, Fariborz, London, New York : Routledge, (Routledge Research in Global Environmental Governance ) - p. 127 - 145.

• Moving Sustainable Shipping Forward; The Potential of Market-based Mechanisms to Reduce Reduce CO2 Emissions from Shipping

J van Leeuwen, CSA van Koppen (2016): The Journal of Sustainable Mobility, Volume 3, Issue 2