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In MEPC 61/5/19 India believes there should study on the possible impacts of MBMs on Indias
be no mandatory requirement on developing shipping sector and trade. Ninety five per cent
countries for reducing greenhouse gas emissions of the countrys trade by volume moves by sea.
due to their need to pursue social and economic More than 50 per cent of the Indian fleet is over
development. Forty per cent of Indias population 20 years old and the average age of the fleet is 17
still lives without electricity and the efforts to years. India believes that MBMs could impact on
remedy this will increase energy use and thus freight rates, the export/import prices of essential
emissions. India asserts that the country already commodities due to bunker fuel rising costs, place
has two national market based measures to curb burden on end consumers and possibly even
greenhouse gas emissions. increase the countrys ghg emissions. The study
analysed the impact on capeside iron exports
Carbon tax on coal to fund clean energy from India to China, imports of coal to India from
Australia and imports of crude oil to India from
Perform, Achieve & Trade (PAT) mechanism Saudi Arabia. The study establishes that freight
for energy efficiency of fossil fuels rates would rise.