As the world's shipping industry decarbonises at a glacial pace, the Marshall Islands has a plan to wean its fleets off fossil fuels completely by 2050.
But the Marshall Islands has a plan. It involves marrying traditional engineering with futuristic technology to wean its fleets off diesel altogether.
Last year, she addressed a symposium on low- and zero-carbon shipping fuels, run by the International Maritime Organization."The economics are clear," she said. "Kicking the can costs more than acting decisively now." "So much of our work, in addition to calling all countries to decarbonise rapidly, [is to] provide resourcing for climate-vulnerable regions to be able to deal with the impacts, while the whole world continues on its glacial pace of decarbonisation," Atina says as we sit in her office.The Center recently published a framework that aims to fully decarbonise transport in the Marshall Islands by 2050.
The process, called ocean thermal energy conversion or OTEC, uses the temperature difference between warm water and cold water to generate electricity. That's because atolls tend to drop off like a cliff into the frigid depths, where the water's only around 4 degrees Celsius. Their surface waters hover around the high 20s.Traditional canoes for the 21st century
A few years ago, the NGO branched out to teach traditional Marshallese boat-building to people from the less-populated outer islands. He hopes that communities will start using wind-powered canoes as their default mode of sea transport.
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