News / COP27: Infrastructure worries hang over Atlantic "green shipping corridor" plans

Yara Birkeland, the world's first zero emission ship. Source Yara.

The UK has signed up to a ‘green corridors’ agreement alongside Norway, the Netherlands and the United States to bring about zero-emission shipping routes between these countries.

The agreement, made at the COP27 conference in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheikh, opens up the possibility of carbon-free routes between several countries in the North Atlantic.

It also includes a separate agreement between the UK and US to launch a Green Shipping Corridor Task Force, a collaborative research and development effort.

Both Norway ...