It is good to see individual shipowners standing up for responsible and urgent action to be taken to counter climate change.
Organisations such as the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) certainly take the issue seriously but too often it sounds like it is arguing on behalf of the slowest boat in the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) convoy.
Fred Olsen, in a rare interview with Fortune Magazine this month, argues that the world is not facing a shortage of oil, or even a future of ultra-high prices, but desperately needs renewable-energy technology to counter the earth’s rising temperatures.
