Green Shipping Corridor Hub - Mission Innovation (2024)

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What are the benefits of green shipping corridors? ›

These estimates support findings by C40 and other organizations that activities undertaken through green shipping corridors can accelerate wider decarbonization across the maritime industry and unlock health benefits for local communities and green economy opportunities for participating countries.

Green shipping corridors enable cities and ports to turn climate ambitions into action by: Creating special economic zones at sea to support an enabling ecosystem for the uptake of new technologies, clean fuels, and innovative business models.

The second edition of the Annual Progress Report on Green Shipping Corridors reveals that the number of green corridor initiatives around the world went from 21 to 44 over the past year, and finds substantial maturation among existing corridors, with multiple corridors clearing a progress stage, deciding on their ...

The Clydebank Declaration aims to create green shipping corridors, free of greenhouse gas emissions, between two or more ports around the world. (

Benefits of green corridors

Promotion of non-polluting mobility: bicycles or scooters, for example. Reduced air pollution and noise pollution in the city. Helping prevent heat islands from forming, effectively lowering the temperature. Contributing to a better storm water management, i.e. rainwater.

A green corridor is a narrow strip of urban land designed with varied vegetation and different species of trees. Its purpose is to act as an extension of natural areas and connect green spaces in a city that would otherwise remain isolated.

The term green shipping encompasses a range of strategies and technologies, which all share the common goals of: Reducing carbon emissions. Minimising air and water pollution. Promoting ecological balance.

As the first initiators to declare green shipping corridors, the Clydebank Declaration from COP26 (2021) states: “Signatories agree that fully decarbonized fuels and technologies should not increase global greenhouse gases (GHGs) at any stage of their life cycle” and recognizes that not all vessels transiting a ...

A Green Corridor will protect natural, cultural and scenic resources, provide recreational benefits, and enhance natural beauty and quality of life in our neighborhoods and communities. This effort is part of a broader trend in conservation, which is becoming increasingly holistic.

"The pathway to green shipping" provides insight into developments to date, highlighting the regulations in place and the current debates surrounding more sustainable shipping. The publication also takes an in-depth look at the relevance of ESG to the business model of shipping companies.

What is a shipping corridor? ›

A green shipping corridor is a route between two or more ports where zero-emission shipping solutions are demonstrated and reported. This is achieved through the advancement of technological, commercial, or regulatory initiatives along the route. A green corridor is not a strict set of rules.

Green shipping corridors, which showcase zero-emission fuels and technologies along maritime trade routes between two (or more) ports, can help accelerate adoption of alternatives to petroleum-based fuels in the maritime industry, which in turn can reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The Zero-Emission Shipping Mission (ZESM) Green Shipping Corridor Tracker is an interactive map showing the green shipping corridor initiative that have been announced to-date. The Shipping Mission has developed this online platform as a knowledge resource to support green corridor shipping formation.

Signatories to the Clydebank Declaration include Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US.

Mission statement

It is our collective aim to support the establishment of at least 6 green corridors by the middle of this decade, while aiming to scale activity up in the following years, by inter alia supporting the establishment of more routes, longer routes and/or having more ships on the same routes.

Transport corridors can generate wider economic benefits and costs through their effects on a potentially diverse set of development outcomes, such as economic growth, poverty, jobs, equity, environmental quality, and economic resilience.

By reducing erosion and sedimentation, green infrastructure also improves habitat in small streams and washes. Habitat Connectivity: Large-scale green infrastructure, such as parks and urban forests, help to facilitate wildlife movement and connect wildlife populations between habitats.

Green Transport Corridors aim at reducing environmental and climate impact. while increasing safety and efficiency. Characteristics of a green transport corridor. include: • Sustainable logistics solutions with documented reductions of environmental and.