CLIMATE diplomacy is not dead, but it’s not looking too healthy right now.

A month after the International Maritime Organization’s Net-Zero Framework was put on life support for a year in the hope that a cure could be found, many of the same politicians, negotiators, non-governmental organisations, claques and hacks still reeling from that setback headed to Brazil for this year’s COP climate summit.

A push by more than 80 countries for plans to quit fossil fuels ultimately failed, but states did manage a less ambitious agreement to keep the wheels from falling off.

So where does that leave shipping?

“Not dead yet” is hardly the rallying cry that will spur a generation of bold zero-carbon innovation and investment.

We gathered insights from people who were in the thick of the COP negotiations for shipping, and where the IMO discussions leave us and what happens next.

Joining Richard on the podcast this week are:

• Ellie Besley-Gould, chief executive of the Sustainable Shipping Initiative

• Katharine Palmer, shipping lead at the UN High-Level Climate Champions team

• Christiaan De Beukelaer, senior lecturer in culture and climate at the University of Melbourne and author of ‘Trade Winds’

• Beatriz Martinez Romera, associate professor of environmental and climate change law at the University of Copenhagen

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