Carbon Footprint Cruise Ships

This represents about 02 of global emissions from fossil fuel consumption and cement production.

Carbon footprint cruise ships. That is an increase from 475 ships in 2015 and 463 in 2014. Available research suggest that a large cruise ship can have a carbon footprint greater than 12000 cars. Its time to abandon cruising as usual said Tom Siebens a GCAN activist in a press release Monday.

As part of its strategic plan for carbon footprint reduction Carnival leads the cruise industrys use of LNG to power cruise ships with a total of 11 next-generation cruise ships that will have. According to leading independent German pollution analyst Axel Friedrich a single large cruise ship will emit over five tonnes of NOX emissions and 450kg of ultra fine particles a day. While the European Unions Fit for 55 programme will put pressure on passenger ships of all kinds to switch to either emission free fuels or shore power while in port the IMOs Carbon Intensity Index represents a nearer term challenge for cruise ships.

According to Carnival Corps latest environmental report PDF the companys ships emit 117 pounds of CO 2. Despite improvements in fuel consumption emissions from planes in 2050 are expected to be 7 to 10 times higher than 1990 levels while emissions from ships are projected to increase by 50 to 250. In 2015 for example cruise ships emitted about 19106 kilo-tonnes of CO2-equivalent.

Cruise ships in particular are super-emitters of greenhouse gases. The cruise industrys carbon footprint will only increase if it is allowed to operate post-pandemic as it has in the past. Your carbon footprint is high When you hop onto a cruise your carbon footprint rises.

Cruise lines some of which have ships rivaling the size of small cities are responding to this increased growth of tourism and many are committed to becoming more environmentally friendly. Paper to appear in Energy Policy in press 2010 NOTE. Based on an estimated total number of about 258 million cruise ship passengers in 2017 it can be estimated that the average cruise ship passenger emits 082 tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent for their cruise.

The report says that a mid-sized cruise ship can use as much as 150 tonnes of fuel each day which emits as much particulate as one million cars. What about carbon dioxide emissions. Infographic on the evolution of greenhouse gas emissions by.