{"id":4257,"date":"2026-09-25T11:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectfifty4.com\/imo-net-zero-framework-shipping-carbon-price\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T20:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:29:32","slug":"imo-net-zero-framework-shipping-carbon-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectfifty4.com\/ar\/imo-net-zero-framework-shipping-carbon-price\/","title":{"rendered":"The IMO Net-Zero Framework: Why Shipping&#8217;s Carbon Price Still Is Not Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On 4 December 2026 the International Maritime Organization returns to a decision it could not take in October 2025. The Net-Zero Framework would put a price on the carbon intensity of marine fuel for every ship above 5,000 gross tonnes, at 100 and 380 dollars a tonne of CO2 equivalent. It was approved in April 2025, adjourned by a vote of 57 to 49, and is still a draft. This dossier explains the mechanism, the root causes of the delay, and why a weak outcome is commercially more dangerous for fuel suppliers and charterers than a strong one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Has the IMO Net-Zero Framework been adopted?<\/h2>\n<p>No. As at 25 September 2026 the IMO Net-Zero Framework is still a draft set of amendments to MARPOL Annex VI, not law. It was approved at MEPC 83 in April 2025 by 63 votes to 16, but the extraordinary session convened in October 2025 specifically to adopt it adjourned for twelve months on a procedural vote of 57 to 49 after Saudi Arabia forced a ballot on a Singaporean motion to delay. MEPC 84 in April and May 2026 kept the Framework alive as the basis for negotiation, and rival technical only proposals from Argentina, Liberia and Panama and from Japan failed to command a majority. The adjourned session resumes on 4 December 2026, immediately after MEPC 85. If it is adopted then, DNV assesses the earliest possible entry into force as 1 March 2028.<\/p>\n<h2>\u0627\u0644\u0648\u062c\u0628\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0626\u064a\u0633\u064a\u0629<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Framework is not a carbon tax and the IMO says so directly. It is a fuel intensity standard with tiered compliance fees: every ship above 5,000 gross tonnes on international voyages must meet an annual well to wake greenhouse gas fuel intensity target, and buys remedial units if it misses.<\/li>\n<li>The two prices are 100 and 380 dollars per tonne of CO2 equivalent, fixed for the 2028 to 2030 reporting periods. The gap between them is deliberate: the cheap tier is the ordinary shortfall, the expensive tier is the one designed to be unaffordable.<\/li>\n<li>The delay was procedural, not substantive. MARPOL amendments need a two thirds majority, and even an adopted amendment can be blocked by objections from parties holding half of world tonnage. Liberia and Panama alone flag roughly a third of the fleet. Supporters adjourned rather than risk a defeat that would have killed the instrument.<\/li>\n<li>The fight is now about the Fund, not the targets. BIMCO calls the Fund the safety valve that stops non compliant ships becoming stranded assets. Strip it out and you do not remove the cost, you replace a bounded 380 dollar cheque with vessels that cannot lawfully trade.<\/li>\n<li>EU alignment is conditional and discretionary. The ETS Directive&#8217;s review clause triggers only if the Commission judges a global measure sufficiently ambitious and robust. A weak December outcome means European operators keep paying ETS and FuelEU on top, and the cost wedge widens rather than closes.<\/li>\n<li>The delay has already produced a capital strike. DNV recorded alternative fuel newbuild orders falling 47 percent in 2025 to 275, and methanol orders collapsing from 40 in the first half of 2025 to two in the first half of 2026. Regulatory uncertainty is the input the order book is pricing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>A fuel intensity standard with a priced miss, not a tax<\/h2>\n<p>The Framework is a package of draft amendments forming a new Chapter 5 of the revised MARPOL Annex VI. It applies to ocean going ships above 5,000 gross tonnes on international voyages, which the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imo.org\/en\/mediacentre\/hottopics\/pages\/faqs-the-imo-net-zero-framework.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">IMO states are responsible for over 85 percent of global shipping emissions<\/a> and which already report under the IMO Data Collection System. Domestic only trades, drilling rigs, FPSOs, FSUs and semi submersibles are excluded.<\/p>\n<p>The metric is GHG Fuel Intensity, measured in grams of CO2 equivalent per megajoule of energy used on board. Three features make it bite harder than a simple fuel levy. It is well to wake, so extraction, production and transport count alongside combustion. It covers methane and nitrous oxide as well as CO2, which is what makes it expensive for LNG through methane slip. And it credits shore power, wind propulsion and solar as delivered energy.<\/p>\n<p>Every percentage is measured against a reference baseline of 93.3 grams of CO2 equivalent per megajoule, the average well to wake intensity of the fleet in 2008. Zero or near zero fuels are defined as 19.0 grams or below, which the IMO describes as 80 percent below the current fleet average.<\/p>\n<p>Each ship then faces two annual targets, not one. The Base target starts at a 4 percent reduction in 2028 and reaches 30 percent by 2035 and 65 percent by 2040. The stricter Direct Compliance target starts at 17 percent in 2028 and reaches 43 percent by 2035. Reduction factors for 2036 to 2040 are to be negotiated by 1 January 2032. Only the 2040 Base target is pre set.<\/p>\n<p>The space between the two targets is where the design lives. Beat the Direct Compliance target and a ship earns Surplus Units, bankable for two years, transferable once, and usable only to close another ship&#8217;s Tier 2 deficit. Miss the Direct Compliance target but beat the Base target and the shortfall is a Tier 2 deficit, closable with transferred Surplus Units or purchased remedial units. Miss the Base target and the deficit can be closed only by buying remedial units at the punitive price. Surplus units from other ships will not clear it.<\/p>\n<p>The prices, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnv.com\/maritime\/insights\/topics\/net-zero-framework\/ghg-fuel-intensity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">DNV&#8217;s reading of the draft text<\/a>, are 100 dollars per tonne of CO2 equivalent for the cheaper tier and 380 dollars for the dearer one, fixed for the 2028 to 2030 reporting periods, with a mechanism for setting later prices due by 1 January 2028. Revenue flows to a new IMO Net-Zero Fund which rewards low emission ships, funds innovation and infrastructure in developing countries, and mitigates impacts on small island states and least developed countries. A digital GFI Registry tracks every unit.<\/p>\n<p>The IMO is unusually direct about the framing, because the entire political fight turns on it. The Framework, it says, has been widely mischaracterised as a global carbon tax, but it works very differently: it is a market based system built around performance targets and tiered compliance fees, functioning as a global incentive and funding framework rather than a uniform carbon tax. Whether that distinction survives contact with domestic politics is a separate question, and the answer so far is that it has not.<\/p>\n<h2>A tonnage veto, a supermajority, and open coercion<\/h2>\n<p>The Framework was approved at MEPC 83 in April 2025 by 63 votes to 16, with the United States withdrawing from the session part way through. Six months later the extraordinary session convened specifically to adopt it adjourned for a year, on a vote of 57 to 49 with roughly 21 abstentions including Greece and Cyprus, and eight states absent.<\/p>\n<p>Three structural facts explain the reversal, and all three are documented. First, MARPOL amendments require a two thirds majority of parties present and voting, so anything short of overwhelming support is fragile. Second, and decisively, even an adopted amendment can be blocked during the tacit acceptance window by objections from parties holding at least half of world tonnage. Liberia and Panama alone flag roughly a third of the world&#8217;s commercial fleet by deadweight. Third, the arithmetic moved: of the 63 countries that supported the Framework in April 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/qa-how-countries-got-the-global-net-zero-shipping-deal-back-on-track\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">15 supported the October adjournment and 10 abstained<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That movement was not spontaneous. The United States lobbied against adoption with explicit threats of sanctions, visa restrictions, tariffs and port fees against states, individual diplomats and shipping companies. In a joint letter, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote that this would be the first time a UN organization levies a global carbon tax on the world, that the administration would fight hard to protect its economic interests by imposing costs on countries if they support the Framework, and that fellow IMO members should be on notice.<\/p>\n<p>The procedural move itself is worth understanding, because it is the part most coverage skips. Singapore moved to delay adoption. Saudi Arabia requested that the motion be put to a vote, which required only a simple procedural majority rather than the two thirds needed for adoption itself. Supporters faced a choice between a narrow adoption that might not survive a tonnage weighted objection and an adjournment that kept the instrument alive. They took the adjournment.<\/p>\n<p>Gavin Allwright, Secretary General of the International Windship Association, described the behavioural reality at the September 2026 working group: the numbers looked secure the previous September, he said, but the support failed to materialise at the meeting, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seatrade-maritime.com\/regulations\/spirit-of-imo-alive-but-net-zero-framework-progress-limited\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">if you are under threat or you are under sanction, or under pressure, you have got to be very, very strong to go against the prevailing situation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The flag state split is the commercially important part of the story. Liberia and Panama, the two largest open registries, jointly tabled the principal counter proposal at MEPC 84 with Argentina, limiting targets to fuels already commercially viable and stating that there should be no establishment of an IMO fund. Both had previously supported a universal emissions levy, a far more ambitious instrument. Professor Tristan Smith of UCL explains the mechanism bluntly: privately owned registries have leverage over their host governments because one angry shipowner&#8217;s personal wealth is more than the flag state&#8217;s GDP, and governments of low income countries cannot easily take risks with even small volume revenues.<\/p>\n<p>That proposal drew support from 24 member states. Combined with Japan&#8217;s technical only compromise it still could not command a majority, which is why the Framework survived MEPC 84 as the basis for negotiation. Closing that session on 1 May 2026, IMO Secretary-General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imo.org\/en\/mediacentre\/pressbriefings\/pages\/imo-progresses-work-on-ship-emissions-pollution-and-ocean-protection.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Arsenio Dominguez<\/a> told delegates: we are back on track, but we have to rebuild trust.<\/p>\n<h2>Not the targets. The Fund, and whether a miss can be paid for at all<\/h2>\n<p>Two intersessional working groups were created at MEPC 84. The first, ISWG-GHG 22, ran from 1 to 4 September 2026 and closed without consensus on the two hard issues: the legal nature and design of the IMO Net-Zero Fund, and long term trajectory stringency. ISWG-GHG 23 runs from 23 to 27 November, MEPC 85 sits from 30 November to 3 December, and the adjourned extraordinary session resumes on 4 December.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bimco.org\/news-insights\/bimco-news\/2026\/09\/10-imo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BIMCO&#8217;s own read out<\/a> of that September session, published on 10 September 2026, is the most candid account available and is not encouraging. Member states continue to engage constructively, it reports, but disagreements on central parts of a future framework are of such magnitude that convergence already by December seems challenging. It adds that there may no longer be universal agreement on the strategy&#8217;s ambition and indicative checkpoints.<\/p>\n<p>The live fault lines BIMCO identifies are specific: the shape of the intensity trajectory; whether it should be two tier as in the Framework or single tier as in FuelEU Maritime; whether targets should be set to drive fuel availability or set by it; whether the framework should generate funds at all, with several states invoking the prerogative of sovereign states to levy taxes on their own citizens; whether revenue is spent in sector or handed to states; and whether the technical and economic elements must be agreed as one package.<\/p>\n<p>Underneath the constitutional argument sits the single most commercially important observation in the whole file, and it is BIMCO&#8217;s. The Fund, it writes, is presently the safety valve which prevents ships from potentially becoming stranded assets should over and under compliance not balance. A purely technical measure without the ability to either pay for compliance, or some other measure, risks resulting in some ships being rendered unable to trade.<\/p>\n<p>Read that carefully, because it inverts the usual reading of this negotiation. The bloc pressing to remove the Fund, led by the United States, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Liberia and Panama, is usually described as the low cost option. It is not. Removing the priced escape route does not remove the obligation. It converts a bounded, tradable, budgetable 380 dollar per tonne liability into a binary operating restriction. For a charterer planning tonnage three years out, an unpayable standard is a worse risk than an expensive one.<\/p>\n<p>There was movement in September, and it is worth recording honestly. A majority of delegations taking the floor supported a centralised revenue collection system operationalised through a remedial unit price. There was convergence around a softer start to the reduction trajectory paired with a retained long term target and periodic fuel availability reviews. China, which stayed quiet in October 2025, submitted technical support for carbon pricing and an IMO fund, which analysts read as materially positive. Japan&#8217;s direct contributions proposal was rejected by a majority. BIMCO&#8217;s own conclusion is that MEPC 85 is not the end of the negotiation track and that talks continue into 2027.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Fund is the escape valve<\/strong> It is what makes non compliance a price rather than a prohibition. Remove it and a ship that cannot meet the standard cannot trade, which is a harder constraint than a fee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The trajectory is close to settled<\/strong> The argument has moved from whether there should be targets to how fast they tighten and who collects the money. That is a narrower gap than the October 2025 vote suggested.<\/p>\n<p><strong>December is a checkpoint, not an ending<\/strong> BIMCO expects negotiation to continue into 2027 regardless of the December outcome. Planning on a single binary date is the wrong shape of assumption.<\/p>\n<h2>The cost wedge widens, because EU alignment was never automatic<\/h2>\n<p>EU ETS reached a 100 percent surrender obligation for shipping in 2026, after phasing in at 40 percent in 2024 and 70 percent in 2025. FuelEU Maritime completed its first full compliance cycle in the first half of 2026. A ship trading into Europe under an adopted global framework would face three overlapping carbon cost layers: ETS allowances on in scope voyages, a FuelEU intensity penalty that is structurally very similar to GFI, and IMO remedial units globally.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission has been consistent that it would revisit this. Ahead of the October 2025 session it stated that the EU supports ambitious global measures at IMO level to decarbonise shipping and ensure a global level playing field, that it views the Net-Zero Framework as a significant milestone, and that <a href=\"https:\/\/shipandbunker.com\/news\/emea\/445230-eu-to-review-ets-and-fueleu-rules-after-imos-net-zero-framework-adoption\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">after the adoption, the Commission will review the relevant EU regulations in place<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The legal hooks exist. Article 3gg of the ETS Directive requires the Commission to keep the maritime provisions under review in light of international developments and, in the event the IMO adopts a global market based measure, to take that progress into account, in particular if the measure is sufficiently ambitious and robust. It must report before the second global stocktake and no later than 30 September 2028. <a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/eli\/reg\/2023\/1805\/oj\/eng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FuelEU Maritime<\/a> carries a parallel review clause.<\/p>\n<p>The conditionality is the entire point, and it is routinely misread as a promise. Alignment triggers on two things: IMO adoption, and a Commission judgment that the global measure is sufficiently ambitious and robust. A technical only measure with no Fund would plausibly fail the second test even if it passed the first. The most likely European response to a weak December outcome is therefore to leave ETS and FuelEU substantially intact.<\/p>\n<p>For a European operator that means the wedge does not close. It widens, because the rest of the world gains a cheaper standard while Europe keeps paying for the stricter one. That is precisely the level playing field argument the Commission has been making, and it is the reason the EU has been among the Framework&#8217;s more determined supporters despite pressure from Greek, Cypriot and Maltese shipowners to break the bloc vote.<\/p>\n<p>The fragmentation argument carries most weight with developing country delegations, and it is the one to lead with commercially. Michael Mbaru, low carbon shipping expert for Kenya&#8217;s climate special envoy, put it this way ahead of MEPC 84: if the global package unravels, pressure grows for more regional and unilateral measures instead, and this is particularly difficult for African and other developing countries, because fragmented regulation raises compliance, complexity and transaction costs. Add the UK ETS maritime extension and Californian port emission rules and the counterfactual to a global measure is clear. It is not no regulation. It is more regulation, less coordinated.<\/p>\n<h2>No fossil fuel is compliant in 2028, and the order book already knows<\/h2>\n<p>DNV&#8217;s assessment of the adopted Framework is that it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnv.com\/maritime\/insights\/topics\/net-zero-framework\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">presents a new regulatory era in which ships will be required to gradually adopt fuels that are typically three to four times more expensive than conventional fossil fuels<\/a>. That is the headline number a fuel supplier should plan around, and it is a ratio rather than a forecast.<\/p>\n<p>Bureau Veritas has published the most granular public modelling. Every figure that follows is a modelled estimate under stated assumptions, including remedial unit prices held flat after 2030, surplus unit revenue excluded, zero and near zero reward revenue excluded because the guidelines are not written, and EU ETS assumed at a fixed 75 dollars per tonne. Treat them as directionally useful, not as prices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marine-offshore.bureauveritas.com\/expertise-sustainability\/net-zero-framework\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bureau Veritas<\/a> concludes that by 2028 no fossil fuel would be compliant with the Framework, including low methane slip LNG, and that operating costs roughly double by 2035 in its base case across the three ship types modelled. The tier asymmetry shows up clearly in its numbers: the cheaper tier penalty impact is limited at around 10 percent because it is capped, while the dearer tier is not commercially viable, adding an estimated 20 percent to fuel costs in 2028 and 36 percent in 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Ship by ship, the estimates are specific enough to be useful. A medium range tanker burning 6,400 tonnes of very low sulphur fuel oil a year would need a 25 percent biofuel energy share to hold the stricter target to 2031, and 53 percent by 2035 to stay compliant with both tiers. A 15,000 TEU container ship would need at least 8 percent biofuel in 2028 simply to avoid the expensive tier, with low methane slip LNG the cost effective short term answer. A 174,000 cubic metre LNG carrier on a United States to Europe round trip with a low pressure engine and 1.7 percent methane slip cannot meet the stricter target on fossil fuels at all in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>That last finding is the one the gas trade should sit with. LNG&#8217;s position under a well to wake metric that counts methane is materially worse than under a tank to wake one. The bridge fuel argument survives only with low slip engines and a bio-LNG blend, which is a different supply chain and a different cost base.<\/p>\n<p>The second order effect is already measurable, and it is the strongest evidence that regulatory uncertainty has a price. DNV&#8217;s Alternative Fuels Insight recorded alternative fuel newbuild orders falling 47 percent in 2025 to 275, and methanol orders collapsing from 40 in the first half of 2025 to two in the first half of 2026. DNV attributes what resilience remains to cargo owners with their own decarbonisation targets rather than to regulation. A year of adjournment did not save the industry money. It stopped the investment that would have made compliance affordable.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone selling into this market, the planning implication is not to bet on the December vote. It is to recognise that the demand signal for low carbon marine fuel is currently being set by corporate cargo owners, not by regulators, and that this is the constituency to sell to until the IMO resolves itself. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shippingandoceans.com\/post\/nzf-as-agreed-gets-further-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Professor Tristan Smith&#8217;s read<\/a> of MEPC 84 is worth holding alongside that: for the opponents of meaningful IMO greenhouse gas regulation, he wrote, this was an opportunity to finish what they started, and their failure to do so is critical for shipping and trade&#8217;s future success.<\/p>\n<h2>\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0639\u0644\u064a\u0645\u0627\u062a<\/h2>\n<h3>Is the IMO Net-Zero Framework a carbon tax?<\/h3>\n<p>The IMO says it is not, and the mechanism supports that reading. It is a fuel intensity standard with tiered compliance fees rather than a uniform charge per tonne of fuel: a ship that meets its annual greenhouse gas fuel intensity target pays nothing, and a ship that beats it earns tradable surplus units. The IMO describes it as a market based system built around performance targets and tiered compliance fees, functioning as a global incentive and funding framework rather than a uniform global carbon tax. Opponents, including the United States administration, describe it as the first global carbon tax levied by a UN organization.<\/p>\n<h3>When will the IMO Net-Zero Framework come into force?<\/h3>\n<p>It has not been adopted, so there is no confirmed date. The adjourned extraordinary session resumes on 4 December 2026, after MEPC 85 sits from 30 November to 3 December. If adoption happens then, DNV assesses the earliest possible entry into force as 1 March 2028, reflecting the MARPOL tacit acceptance procedure of at least ten months followed by six months to entry into force.<\/p>\n<h3>Which ships does the Framework cover?<\/h3>\n<p>Ocean going ships above 5,000 gross tonnes on international voyages, which the IMO states account for over 85 percent of global shipping emissions and are already inside the IMO Data Collection System. Ships trading solely domestically are excluded, as are platforms including FPSOs, FSUs and drilling rigs, and semi submersible vessels. Extending the scope to ships between 400 and 5,000 gross tonnes remains under discussion.<\/p>\n<h3>How much would non compliance cost?<\/h3>\n<p>Remedial units are priced at 100 dollars per tonne of CO2 equivalent for the cheaper tier and 380 dollars for the dearer tier, fixed for the 2028 to 2030 reporting periods, with a price setting mechanism for 2031 onwards due by 1 January 2028. Bureau Veritas modelling estimates the cheaper tier adds roughly 10 percent to costs because it is capped, while the dearer tier is not commercially viable, adding an estimated 20 percent to fuel costs in 2028 and 36 percent in 2030. Those are modelled estimates under stated assumptions, not prices.<\/p>\n<h3>What does it mean for LNG as a marine fuel?<\/h3>\n<p>It is materially worse for LNG than a tank to wake metric would be, because greenhouse gas fuel intensity is measured well to wake and counts methane and nitrous oxide alongside CO2, so methane slip is priced. Bureau Veritas modelling estimates that a 174,000 cubic metre LNG carrier with a low pressure engine and 1.7 percent methane slip could not meet the stricter target on fossil fuels in 2028 at all, and that a bio-LNG blend would be needed. For container ships, low methane slip LNG remains the cost effective short term answer in its modelling.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 4 December 2026 the International Maritime Organization returns to a decision it could not take in October 2025. The Net-Zero Framework would put a price on the carbon intensity of marine fuel for every ship above 5,000 gross tonnes, at 100 and 380 dollars a tonne of CO2 equivalent. It was approv<\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"p54_article_data":"{\"meta\": {\"kicker\": \"Insight \u00b7 Government & Path Shapers\", \"topics\": [\"Energy\", \"Strategy\"], \"title\": \"The IMO Net-Zero Framework: Why Shipping's Carbon Price Still Is Not Law\", \"dek\": \"On 4 December 2026 the International Maritime Organization returns to a decision it could not take in October 2025. The Net-Zero Framework would put a price on the carbon intensity of marine fuel for every ship above 5,000 gross tonnes, at 100 and 380 dollars a tonne of CO2 equivalent. It was approved in April 2025, adjourned by a vote of 57 to 49, and is still a draft. This dossier explains the mechanism, the root causes of the delay, and why a weak outcome is commercially more dangerous for fuel suppliers and charterers than a strong one.\", \"date\": \"25 September 2026\", \"readTime\": \"15 min read\", \"author\": \"Project 54, Research & Strategy\"}, \"quickAnswer\": {\"q\": \"Has the IMO Net-Zero Framework been adopted?\", \"a\": \"No. As at 25 September 2026 the IMO Net-Zero Framework is still a draft set of amendments to MARPOL Annex VI, not law. It was approved at MEPC 83 in April 2025 by 63 votes to 16, but the extraordinary session convened in October 2025 specifically to adopt it adjourned for twelve months on a procedural vote of 57 to 49 after Saudi Arabia forced a ballot on a Singaporean motion to delay. MEPC 84 in April and May 2026 kept the Framework alive as the basis for negotiation, and rival technical only proposals from Argentina, Liberia and Panama and from Japan failed to command a majority. The adjourned session resumes on 4 December 2026, immediately after MEPC 85. If it is adopted then, DNV assesses the earliest possible entry into force as 1 March 2028.\"}, \"takeaways\": [\"The Framework is not a carbon tax and the IMO says so directly. It is a fuel intensity standard with tiered compliance fees: every ship above 5,000 gross tonnes on international voyages must meet an annual well to wake greenhouse gas fuel intensity target, and buys remedial units if it misses.\", \"The two prices are 100 and 380 dollars per tonne of CO2 equivalent, fixed for the 2028 to 2030 reporting periods. The gap between them is deliberate: the cheap tier is the ordinary shortfall, the expensive tier is the one designed to be unaffordable.\", \"The delay was procedural, not substantive. MARPOL amendments need a two thirds majority, and even an adopted amendment can be blocked by objections from parties holding half of world tonnage. Liberia and Panama alone flag roughly a third of the fleet. Supporters adjourned rather than risk a defeat that would have killed the instrument.\", \"The fight is now about the Fund, not the targets. BIMCO calls the Fund the safety valve that stops non compliant ships becoming stranded assets. Strip it out and you do not remove the cost, you replace a bounded 380 dollar cheque with vessels that cannot lawfully trade.\", \"EU alignment is conditional and discretionary. The ETS Directive's review clause triggers only if the Commission judges a global measure sufficiently ambitious and robust. A weak December outcome means European operators keep paying ETS and FuelEU on top, and the cost wedge widens rather than closes.\", \"The delay has already produced a capital strike. DNV recorded alternative fuel newbuild orders falling 47 percent in 2025 to 275, and methanol orders collapsing from 40 in the first half of 2025 to two in the first half of 2026. Regulatory uncertainty is the input the order book is pricing.\"], \"sections\": [{\"id\": \"mechanism\", \"q\": \"What does the Net-Zero Framework actually do to a ship?\", \"h\": \"A fuel intensity standard with a priced miss, not a tax\", \"p\": [\"The Framework is a package of draft amendments forming a new Chapter 5 of the revised MARPOL Annex VI. It applies to ocean going ships above 5,000 gross tonnes on international voyages, which the <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.imo.org\/en\/mediacentre\/hottopics\/pages\/faqs-the-imo-net-zero-framework.aspx\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">IMO states are responsible for over 85 percent of global shipping emissions<\/a> and which already report under the IMO Data Collection System. Domestic only trades, drilling rigs, FPSOs, FSUs and semi submersibles are excluded.\", \"The metric is GHG Fuel Intensity, measured in grams of CO2 equivalent per megajoule of energy used on board. Three features make it bite harder than a simple fuel levy. It is well to wake, so extraction, production and transport count alongside combustion. It covers methane and nitrous oxide as well as CO2, which is what makes it expensive for LNG through methane slip. And it credits shore power, wind propulsion and solar as delivered energy.\", \"Every percentage is measured against a reference baseline of 93.3 grams of CO2 equivalent per megajoule, the average well to wake intensity of the fleet in 2008. Zero or near zero fuels are defined as 19.0 grams or below, which the IMO describes as 80 percent below the current fleet average.\", \"Each ship then faces two annual targets, not one. The Base target starts at a 4 percent reduction in 2028 and reaches 30 percent by 2035 and 65 percent by 2040. The stricter Direct Compliance target starts at 17 percent in 2028 and reaches 43 percent by 2035. Reduction factors for 2036 to 2040 are to be negotiated by 1 January 2032. Only the 2040 Base target is pre set.\", \"The space between the two targets is where the design lives. Beat the Direct Compliance target and a ship earns Surplus Units, bankable for two years, transferable once, and usable only to close another ship's Tier 2 deficit. Miss the Direct Compliance target but beat the Base target and the shortfall is a Tier 2 deficit, closable with transferred Surplus Units or purchased remedial units. Miss the Base target and the deficit can be closed only by buying remedial units at the punitive price. Surplus units from other ships will not clear it.\", \"The prices, per <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.dnv.com\/maritime\/insights\/topics\/net-zero-framework\/ghg-fuel-intensity\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">DNV's reading of the draft text<\/a>, are 100 dollars per tonne of CO2 equivalent for the cheaper tier and 380 dollars for the dearer one, fixed for the 2028 to 2030 reporting periods, with a mechanism for setting later prices due by 1 January 2028. Revenue flows to a new IMO Net-Zero Fund which rewards low emission ships, funds innovation and infrastructure in developing countries, and mitigates impacts on small island states and least developed countries. A digital GFI Registry tracks every unit.\", \"The IMO is unusually direct about the framing, because the entire political fight turns on it. The Framework, it says, has been widely mischaracterised as a global carbon tax, but it works very differently: it is a market based system built around performance targets and tiered compliance fees, functioning as a global incentive and funding framework rather than a uniform carbon tax. Whether that distinction survives contact with domestic politics is a separate question, and the answer so far is that it has not.\"], \"table\": {\"cols\": [\"Year\", \"Base target reduction\", \"Direct Compliance target reduction\"], \"rows\": [[\"2028\", \"4%\", \"17%\"], [\"2029\", \"6%\", \"19%\"], [\"2030\", \"8%\", \"21%\"], [\"2032\", \"16.8%\", \"29.8%\"], [\"2035\", \"30%\", \"43%\"], [\"2040\", \"65%\", \"not yet set\"]]}}, {\"id\": \"delay\", \"q\": \"Why did a consensus body end up voting against its own deal?\", \"h\": \"A tonnage veto, a supermajority, and open coercion\", \"p\": [\"The Framework was approved at MEPC 83 in April 2025 by 63 votes to 16, with the United States withdrawing from the session part way through. Six months later the extraordinary session convened specifically to adopt it adjourned for a year, on a vote of 57 to 49 with roughly 21 abstentions including Greece and Cyprus, and eight states absent.\", \"Three structural facts explain the reversal, and all three are documented. First, MARPOL amendments require a two thirds majority of parties present and voting, so anything short of overwhelming support is fragile. Second, and decisively, even an adopted amendment can be blocked during the tacit acceptance window by objections from parties holding at least half of world tonnage. Liberia and Panama alone flag roughly a third of the world's commercial fleet by deadweight. Third, the arithmetic moved: of the 63 countries that supported the Framework in April 2025, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/qa-how-countries-got-the-global-net-zero-shipping-deal-back-on-track\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">15 supported the October adjournment and 10 abstained<\/a>.\", \"That movement was not spontaneous. The United States lobbied against adoption with explicit threats of sanctions, visa restrictions, tariffs and port fees against states, individual diplomats and shipping companies. In a joint letter, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote that this would be the first time a UN organization levies a global carbon tax on the world, that the administration would fight hard to protect its economic interests by imposing costs on countries if they support the Framework, and that fellow IMO members should be on notice.\", \"The procedural move itself is worth understanding, because it is the part most coverage skips. Singapore moved to delay adoption. Saudi Arabia requested that the motion be put to a vote, which required only a simple procedural majority rather than the two thirds needed for adoption itself. Supporters faced a choice between a narrow adoption that might not survive a tonnage weighted objection and an adjournment that kept the instrument alive. They took the adjournment.\", \"Gavin Allwright, Secretary General of the International Windship Association, described the behavioural reality at the September 2026 working group: the numbers looked secure the previous September, he said, but the support failed to materialise at the meeting, and <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.seatrade-maritime.com\/regulations\/spirit-of-imo-alive-but-net-zero-framework-progress-limited\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">if you are under threat or you are under sanction, or under pressure, you have got to be very, very strong to go against the prevailing situation<\/a>.\", \"The flag state split is the commercially important part of the story. Liberia and Panama, the two largest open registries, jointly tabled the principal counter proposal at MEPC 84 with Argentina, limiting targets to fuels already commercially viable and stating that there should be no establishment of an IMO fund. Both had previously supported a universal emissions levy, a far more ambitious instrument. Professor Tristan Smith of UCL explains the mechanism bluntly: privately owned registries have leverage over their host governments because one angry shipowner's personal wealth is more than the flag state's GDP, and governments of low income countries cannot easily take risks with even small volume revenues.\", \"That proposal drew support from 24 member states. Combined with Japan's technical only compromise it still could not command a majority, which is why the Framework survived MEPC 84 as the basis for negotiation. Closing that session on 1 May 2026, IMO Secretary-General <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.imo.org\/en\/mediacentre\/pressbriefings\/pages\/imo-progresses-work-on-ship-emissions-pollution-and-ocean-protection.aspx\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">Arsenio Dominguez<\/a> told delegates: we are back on track, but we have to rebuild trust.\"]}, {\"id\": \"fund\", \"q\": \"What is actually still being negotiated?\", \"h\": \"Not the targets. The Fund, and whether a miss can be paid for at all\", \"p\": [\"Two intersessional working groups were created at MEPC 84. The first, ISWG-GHG 22, ran from 1 to 4 September 2026 and closed without consensus on the two hard issues: the legal nature and design of the IMO Net-Zero Fund, and long term trajectory stringency. ISWG-GHG 23 runs from 23 to 27 November, MEPC 85 sits from 30 November to 3 December, and the adjourned extraordinary session resumes on 4 December.\", \"<a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bimco.org\/news-insights\/bimco-news\/2026\/09\/10-imo\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">BIMCO's own read out<\/a> of that September session, published on 10 September 2026, is the most candid account available and is not encouraging. Member states continue to engage constructively, it reports, but disagreements on central parts of a future framework are of such magnitude that convergence already by December seems challenging. It adds that there may no longer be universal agreement on the strategy's ambition and indicative checkpoints.\", \"The live fault lines BIMCO identifies are specific: the shape of the intensity trajectory; whether it should be two tier as in the Framework or single tier as in FuelEU Maritime; whether targets should be set to drive fuel availability or set by it; whether the framework should generate funds at all, with several states invoking the prerogative of sovereign states to levy taxes on their own citizens; whether revenue is spent in sector or handed to states; and whether the technical and economic elements must be agreed as one package.\", \"Underneath the constitutional argument sits the single most commercially important observation in the whole file, and it is BIMCO's. The Fund, it writes, is presently the safety valve which prevents ships from potentially becoming stranded assets should over and under compliance not balance. A purely technical measure without the ability to either pay for compliance, or some other measure, risks resulting in some ships being rendered unable to trade.\", \"Read that carefully, because it inverts the usual reading of this negotiation. The bloc pressing to remove the Fund, led by the United States, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Liberia and Panama, is usually described as the low cost option. It is not. Removing the priced escape route does not remove the obligation. It converts a bounded, tradable, budgetable 380 dollar per tonne liability into a binary operating restriction. For a charterer planning tonnage three years out, an unpayable standard is a worse risk than an expensive one.\", \"There was movement in September, and it is worth recording honestly. A majority of delegations taking the floor supported a centralised revenue collection system operationalised through a remedial unit price. There was convergence around a softer start to the reduction trajectory paired with a retained long term target and periodic fuel availability reviews. China, which stayed quiet in October 2025, submitted technical support for carbon pricing and an IMO fund, which analysts read as materially positive. Japan's direct contributions proposal was rejected by a majority. BIMCO's own conclusion is that MEPC 85 is not the end of the negotiation track and that talks continue into 2027.\"], \"pillars\": [{\"n\": \"01\", \"t\": \"The Fund is the escape valve\", \"d\": \"It is what makes non compliance a price rather than a prohibition. Remove it and a ship that cannot meet the standard cannot trade, which is a harder constraint than a fee.\"}, {\"n\": \"02\", \"t\": \"The trajectory is close to settled\", \"d\": \"The argument has moved from whether there should be targets to how fast they tighten and who collects the money. That is a narrower gap than the October 2025 vote suggested.\"}, {\"n\": \"03\", \"t\": \"December is a checkpoint, not an ending\", \"d\": \"BIMCO expects negotiation to continue into 2027 regardless of the December outcome. Planning on a single binary date is the wrong shape of assumption.\"}]}, {\"id\": \"eu\", \"q\": \"What happens to European operators if December fails?\", \"h\": \"The cost wedge widens, because EU alignment was never automatic\", \"p\": [\"EU ETS reached a 100 percent surrender obligation for shipping in 2026, after phasing in at 40 percent in 2024 and 70 percent in 2025. FuelEU Maritime completed its first full compliance cycle in the first half of 2026. A ship trading into Europe under an adopted global framework would face three overlapping carbon cost layers: ETS allowances on in scope voyages, a FuelEU intensity penalty that is structurally very similar to GFI, and IMO remedial units globally.\", \"The European Commission has been consistent that it would revisit this. Ahead of the October 2025 session it stated that the EU supports ambitious global measures at IMO level to decarbonise shipping and ensure a global level playing field, that it views the Net-Zero Framework as a significant milestone, and that <a href=\\\"https:\/\/shipandbunker.com\/news\/emea\/445230-eu-to-review-ets-and-fueleu-rules-after-imos-net-zero-framework-adoption\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">after the adoption, the Commission will review the relevant EU regulations in place<\/a>.\", \"The legal hooks exist. Article 3gg of the ETS Directive requires the Commission to keep the maritime provisions under review in light of international developments and, in the event the IMO adopts a global market based measure, to take that progress into account, in particular if the measure is sufficiently ambitious and robust. It must report before the second global stocktake and no later than 30 September 2028. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/eli\/reg\/2023\/1805\/oj\/eng\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">FuelEU Maritime<\/a> carries a parallel review clause.\", \"The conditionality is the entire point, and it is routinely misread as a promise. Alignment triggers on two things: IMO adoption, and a Commission judgment that the global measure is sufficiently ambitious and robust. A technical only measure with no Fund would plausibly fail the second test even if it passed the first. The most likely European response to a weak December outcome is therefore to leave ETS and FuelEU substantially intact.\", \"For a European operator that means the wedge does not close. It widens, because the rest of the world gains a cheaper standard while Europe keeps paying for the stricter one. That is precisely the level playing field argument the Commission has been making, and it is the reason the EU has been among the Framework's more determined supporters despite pressure from Greek, Cypriot and Maltese shipowners to break the bloc vote.\", \"The fragmentation argument carries most weight with developing country delegations, and it is the one to lead with commercially. Michael Mbaru, low carbon shipping expert for Kenya's climate special envoy, put it this way ahead of MEPC 84: if the global package unravels, pressure grows for more regional and unilateral measures instead, and this is particularly difficult for African and other developing countries, because fragmented regulation raises compliance, complexity and transaction costs. Add the UK ETS maritime extension and Californian port emission rules and the counterfactual to a global measure is clear. It is not no regulation. It is more regulation, less coordinated.\"]}, {\"id\": \"fuel\", \"q\": \"What does this mean for marine fuel demand?\", \"h\": \"No fossil fuel is compliant in 2028, and the order book already knows\", \"p\": [\"DNV's assessment of the adopted Framework is that it <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.dnv.com\/maritime\/insights\/topics\/net-zero-framework\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">presents a new regulatory era in which ships will be required to gradually adopt fuels that are typically three to four times more expensive than conventional fossil fuels<\/a>. That is the headline number a fuel supplier should plan around, and it is a ratio rather than a forecast.\", \"Bureau Veritas has published the most granular public modelling. Every figure that follows is a modelled estimate under stated assumptions, including remedial unit prices held flat after 2030, surplus unit revenue excluded, zero and near zero reward revenue excluded because the guidelines are not written, and EU ETS assumed at a fixed 75 dollars per tonne. Treat them as directionally useful, not as prices.\", \"<a href=\\\"https:\/\/marine-offshore.bureauveritas.com\/expertise-sustainability\/net-zero-framework\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">Bureau Veritas<\/a> concludes that by 2028 no fossil fuel would be compliant with the Framework, including low methane slip LNG, and that operating costs roughly double by 2035 in its base case across the three ship types modelled. The tier asymmetry shows up clearly in its numbers: the cheaper tier penalty impact is limited at around 10 percent because it is capped, while the dearer tier is not commercially viable, adding an estimated 20 percent to fuel costs in 2028 and 36 percent in 2030.\", \"Ship by ship, the estimates are specific enough to be useful. A medium range tanker burning 6,400 tonnes of very low sulphur fuel oil a year would need a 25 percent biofuel energy share to hold the stricter target to 2031, and 53 percent by 2035 to stay compliant with both tiers. A 15,000 TEU container ship would need at least 8 percent biofuel in 2028 simply to avoid the expensive tier, with low methane slip LNG the cost effective short term answer. A 174,000 cubic metre LNG carrier on a United States to Europe round trip with a low pressure engine and 1.7 percent methane slip cannot meet the stricter target on fossil fuels at all in 2028.\", \"That last finding is the one the gas trade should sit with. LNG's position under a well to wake metric that counts methane is materially worse than under a tank to wake one. The bridge fuel argument survives only with low slip engines and a bio-LNG blend, which is a different supply chain and a different cost base.\", \"The second order effect is already measurable, and it is the strongest evidence that regulatory uncertainty has a price. DNV's Alternative Fuels Insight recorded alternative fuel newbuild orders falling 47 percent in 2025 to 275, and methanol orders collapsing from 40 in the first half of 2025 to two in the first half of 2026. DNV attributes what resilience remains to cargo owners with their own decarbonisation targets rather than to regulation. A year of adjournment did not save the industry money. It stopped the investment that would have made compliance affordable.\", \"For anyone selling into this market, the planning implication is not to bet on the December vote. It is to recognise that the demand signal for low carbon marine fuel is currently being set by corporate cargo owners, not by regulators, and that this is the constituency to sell to until the IMO resolves itself. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.shippingandoceans.com\/post\/nzf-as-agreed-gets-further-support\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">Professor Tristan Smith's read<\/a> of MEPC 84 is worth holding alongside that: for the opponents of meaningful IMO greenhouse gas regulation, he wrote, this was an opportunity to finish what they started, and their failure to do so is critical for shipping and trade's future success.\"]}], \"media\": {\"image\": {\"src\": \"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/imo-net-zero-framework-offshore-support-vessel.jpg\", \"label\": \"Ships above 5,000 gross tonnes on international voyages, some 85 percent of shipping emissions, sit inside the draft Framework.\", \"credit\": \"Project 54\"}, \"infographicLabel\": \"The two tier design: beat the Direct Compliance target and earn surplus units, miss it and buy remedial units at 100 dollars a tonne, miss the Base target and pay 380.\", \"pdf\": {\"href\": \"https:\/\/projectfifty4.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/imo-net-zero-framework-shipping-carbon-price.pdf\", \"title\": \"The IMO Net-Zero Framework, Slide Deck\", \"meta\": \"PDF \u00b7 briefing deck\"}}, \"poll\": {\"q\": \"What is the most likely outcome when the IMO session resumes on 4 December 2026?\", \"options\": [{\"id\": \"a\", \"label\": \"Adopted substantially as drafted\", \"insight\": \"Possible but not what the working groups suggest. BIMCO's September read out states that disagreements on central parts of the framework are of such magnitude that convergence already by December seems challenging.\"}, {\"id\": \"b\", \"label\": \"Adopted in weakened form, no Fund\", \"insight\": \"The outcome the opposing bloc is working toward, and commercially the most dangerous. BIMCO argues the Fund is the safety valve preventing non compliant ships becoming stranded assets, so removing it converts a priced liability into an operating restriction.\"}, {\"id\": \"c\", \"label\": \"Deferred again into 2027\", \"insight\": \"BIMCO itself notes MEPC 85 is not the end of the negotiation track and that talks continue into 2027, so a further deferral would not kill the instrument. It would extend the investment freeze that has already halved alternative fuel ordering.\"}, {\"id\": \"d\", \"label\": \"Collapses entirely\", \"insight\": \"The least likely, because the rival technical only proposals could not command a majority at MEPC 84 either. The Solomon Islands submission put it plainly: there is no reason to expect a new proposal would find a majority, much less a consensus.\"}], \"note\": \"Responses are anonymous and are used to shape future Project 54 research on energy regulation and marine fuels.\"}, \"faq\": [{\"q\": \"Is the IMO Net-Zero Framework a carbon tax?\", \"a\": \"The IMO says it is not, and the mechanism supports that reading. It is a fuel intensity standard with tiered compliance fees rather than a uniform charge per tonne of fuel: a ship that meets its annual greenhouse gas fuel intensity target pays nothing, and a ship that beats it earns tradable surplus units. The IMO describes it as a market based system built around performance targets and tiered compliance fees, functioning as a global incentive and funding framework rather than a uniform global carbon tax. Opponents, including the United States administration, describe it as the first global carbon tax levied by a UN organization.\"}, {\"q\": \"When will the IMO Net-Zero Framework come into force?\", \"a\": \"It has not been adopted, so there is no confirmed date. The adjourned extraordinary session resumes on 4 December 2026, after MEPC 85 sits from 30 November to 3 December. If adoption happens then, DNV assesses the earliest possible entry into force as 1 March 2028, reflecting the MARPOL tacit acceptance procedure of at least ten months followed by six months to entry into force.\"}, {\"q\": \"Which ships does the Framework cover?\", \"a\": \"Ocean going ships above 5,000 gross tonnes on international voyages, which the IMO states account for over 85 percent of global shipping emissions and are already inside the IMO Data Collection System. Ships trading solely domestically are excluded, as are platforms including FPSOs, FSUs and drilling rigs, and semi submersible vessels. Extending the scope to ships between 400 and 5,000 gross tonnes remains under discussion.\"}, {\"q\": \"How much would non compliance cost?\", \"a\": \"Remedial units are priced at 100 dollars per tonne of CO2 equivalent for the cheaper tier and 380 dollars for the dearer tier, fixed for the 2028 to 2030 reporting periods, with a price setting mechanism for 2031 onwards due by 1 January 2028. Bureau Veritas modelling estimates the cheaper tier adds roughly 10 percent to costs because it is capped, while the dearer tier is not commercially viable, adding an estimated 20 percent to fuel costs in 2028 and 36 percent in 2030. Those are modelled estimates under stated assumptions, not prices.\"}, {\"q\": \"What does it mean for LNG as a marine fuel?\", \"a\": \"It is materially worse for LNG than a tank to wake metric would be, because greenhouse gas fuel intensity is measured well to wake and counts methane and nitrous oxide alongside CO2, so methane slip is priced. Bureau Veritas modelling estimates that a 174,000 cubic metre LNG carrier with a low pressure engine and 1.7 percent methane slip could not meet the stricter target on fossil fuels in 2028 at all, and that a bio-LNG blend would be needed. 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