Here is All You Need to Know About EU MRV Regulation

In today's time, it would be hard to believe that there was a time when sailors could legally throw oil in water. That stopped with the adoption of annex 1 of the MARPOL. Other wastes like chemicals, domestic garbage and sewage stopped soon after. But in recent times, the emphasis has been on two sources of pollution Air pollution and Pollution from the ballast water Annex VI of the MARPOL aimed to control NOx and SOx component from burning of fuel. Then where does this new EU regulation fit? EU MRV is aiming to control the emission of CO2 from the ships. In this post, I will discuss how EU MRV aims to do that and what is required out of this new regulation called EU MRV. What is EU MRV? Right now this regulation does not define the maximum level of co2 emission that is allowed for the ships. Instead, it just focuses on three aspects of co2 emission Monitoring Reporting Verification That is exactly what MRV stands for. The questions that would come to our mind are, Specifically, what needs to be monitored how exactly this need to be monitored To whom this data needs to be reported Who needs to verify thi...