Carbon Footprint Of A Cruise Ship

Infographic on the evolution of greenhouse gas emissions by sector including aviation and shipping.

Carbon footprint of a cruise ship. The cruise industrys carbon footprint will only increase if it is allowed to operate post-pandemic as it has in the past. Given the carbon intensity of cruise ship tourism and continuous growth rates it is critical to rapidly invest into new energy systems. To achieve the best possible CII the cruise ship Foreship used in its calculation should always sail at 12 knots.

So both the climate and the. Based on an estimated total number of about 258 million cruise ship passengers in 2017 it can be estimated that the average cruise ship passenger emits 082 tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent for their cruise. The following table shows the amount of CO2 in grams emitted per metric ton of freight and per km of.

The average cruise ship passenger emitted 083 tonnes of CO2-equivalent just for their cruise. Your carbon footprint approximately triples while cruising. Its time to abandon cruising as usual said Tom Siebens a GCAN activist in a press release Monday.

A 2011 case study of cruise ships in Dubrovnik Croatia estimated that the average CO2 emitted per person per mile on a medium-sized 3000-passenger cruise ship was 14 pounds. A tonne of shipping fuel contains 085 tonnes of carbon which produces 31 tonnes of carbon dioxide when it is burnt. Every passenger is responsible for 91 tonnes of emissions.

Paper to appear in Energy Policy in press 2010 NOTE. Six of the studies examined the industrys contribution to global warming through carbon dioxide emissions CO2. Reducing the speed below 12 knots would result in a lower CII rating even if CO2 emissions reduced at the same time.

Available research suggest that a large cruise ship can have a carbon footprint greater than 12000 cars. Globalization makes it easy to send goods around the world. 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.