Carbon Footprint Cruise Ships

Paper to appear in Energy Policy in press 2010 NOTE.

Carbon footprint cruise ships. Climate Care carbon offsetting company According to our calculations a cruiseliner such as Queen Mary 2 emits 043kg of CO2 per passenger mile. Your carbon footprint is high When you hop onto a cruise your carbon footprint rises. That is an increase from 475 ships in 2015 and 463 in 2014.

These large ships plug in like a very large appliance instead of running their engines while cleaning and offloading and taking on new passengers. Cruise ships in particular are super-emitters of greenhouse gases. Its time to abandon cruising as usual said Tom Siebens a GCAN activist in a press release Monday.

The average cruise ship. 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. Your carbon footprint approximately triples while cruising.

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. Not only this the air you breathe on deck might be as bad as in the worlds most polluted cities. The Global Sustainable Tourism Dashboard visualises the carbon dioxide emissions from the above cruise ship companies and estimates the remainder based on market share.

A passengers carbon footprint triples in size when taking a cruise and the emissions produced can contribute to serious health issues. In 2015 for example cruise ships emitted about 19106 kilo-tonnes of CO2-equivalent. 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.

According to Sailors for the Sea a nonprofit ocean conservation organization affiliated with Oceana marine diesel generates 2124 pounds of CO2 per gallon of fuel. The eight options include allocating carbon dioxide emissions to countries based on where the fuel ships use is sold where ships are registered or the origins or destinations of the ships. In fact every persons carbon footprint on a cruise is about three times as high as it would be on land.