PIANC Smart Rivers 2022

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To ensure its future, the response of IWT to climate change must be twofold: it must adapt to the changing climate and mitigate its carbon footprint. The former will make IWT resilient against adverse effects of climate change, the latter will bring IWT in line with the Paris Agreement and decarbonise IWT. 
The European Commission’s Green deal for Europe  and Smart and Sustainable Mobility Strategy lay out priority actions to be realised to achieve a greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target of roughly 55% by 2030 compared with 1990 (for all sectors), and a GHG reduction target of 90% by 2050 (for the transport sector). In line with the above, the European Commission’s NAIADES III Action plan  includes the core objective of facilitating the transition to zero-emission vessels by 2050. In the Declaration signed in Mannheim in 2018, the inland navigation ministers of the Member States of the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine (CCNR) defined similar targets of largely eliminating GHG by 2050.
Regulations or standards are important policy instruments to enable and stimulate the transition towards carbon neutral IWT. Regulations and standards provide for legal certainty, which in turn facilitates investments in new technologies. Indeed, legal uncertainties and long administrative procedures could be a bigger obstacle to decarbonising of the fleet than technological issues. Furthermore, standards and regulations ensure safe deployment as well as public support and confidence in the new technologies and energy carriers, which are all needed to overcome the many challenges arising with the decarbonisation of IWT.

Currently, IWT in Europe views battery electric propulsion as well as fuel cells using hydrogen or methanol as very promising for decarbonisation of the fleet and are therefore at the centre of work on new regulations and standards. This contribution will present respective regulations and standards which are already in place, currently under development or whose development is foreseen to effectively support the transition towards zero emission of the IWT fleet in Europe. Vessel technical requirements are at the core of the contribution, but requirements concerning crew training and vessel operation are also considered. The contribution will examine the content of the regulations and standards as well as the intended development and implementation. The authors of the contribution hope that sharing of lessons learned will be useful for experts involved in the development of standards and regulations elsewhere in the world and will eventually kickstart a world wide exchange on this existential challenge for IWT.

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