EP7: Game On - The path to decarbonize maritime emissions

With concrete action awaiting to lay out the path to decarbonize maritime emissions, Patrick Verhoeven, managing director of the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH), and Jutta Paulus, member of the European Parliament and rapporteur for the revision of the EU emissions reporting regulation, discussed setting out rules and mutual expectations. MEPC 78 takes place at the beginning of June and this discussion will continue. Speakers: Jutta Paulus - Member of the European Parliament Patrick Verhoeven - Managing Director, International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) Ines Nastali - Senior Custom Publishing Editor, S&P Global Market Intelligence Jutta Paulus has been a German member of the European Parliament for the Greens/European Free Alliance since July 2019. Before, she worked in quality management and controlling in laboratories and hospitals. Paulus holds a bachelor of pharmacy from the Philipps-Unversität of Marburg, Germany. Patrick Verhoeven is the managing director of the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH), responsible for policy and strategy. The organisation represents about 170 ports and some 140 port-related businesses in 90 countries worldwide. Prior to joining IAPH in 2017, Patrick spent twenty-four years in Brussels representing the interests of shipowners, port authorities, terminal operators and ship agents at EU level. He started his career in 1991 with the Antwerp-based ship agent Grisar & Velge. Patrick holds a PhD in applied economics and a bachelor’s in law from the University of Antwerp. Ines Nastali joined IHS Markit (now S&P Global) at the London headquarters in September 2018 as the editor of Dredging and Ports Construction magazine before taking over as editor of Ports & Harbors, the membership publication of the International Association of Ports and Harbors. She is responsible for the delivery of a bi-monthly magazine, always on the lookout for the latest market trends in order to keep readers informed, as well as the supplement production for all maritime publications. Making use of her experience in multi-media and data-driven storytelling, her focus for the company's maritime publications portfolio has been to establish the utilisation of S&P Global Market Intelligence's rich dredging, port and maritime data and to translate those datasets into interactive and print visualisations to give an insight into fleet data, port infrastructure developments and shipbuilding trends as well as casualty incidents. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in technical journalism from the Hochschule Bremen, Germany, and a Master of Arts in science journalism from London's City University.