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Climate Change—Challenges and Response Options for the Port Sector

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  • Sahar Azarkamand

    (Resource Recovery and Environmental Management (R2EM), Department of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain)

  • Alsnosy Balbaa

    (Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, P.O. Box 1029, Alexandria 21913, Egypt)

  • Christopher Wooldridge

    (School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK)

  • Rosa Mari Darbra

    (Resource Recovery and Environmental Management (R2EM), Department of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain)

Abstract

Climate change is an established and growing priority environmental issue. This paper investigates the importance of climate change in ports through a research-based survey on data collected from participants at the Greenport Congress in Valencia in 2018. The data for this paper were obtained from the responses of 55 port professionals and environmental specialists that replied to a questionnaire survey during the Congress. Questionnaires were analyzed to identify the opinions and experience of delegates. A collaborative approach involving the free exchange of knowledge and experience between port professionals, industry practitioners and academia is the model most likely to deliver practicable options to the mutual advantage of operators, local communities, regulatory authorities and the environment. Based on the results of this survey, Climate Change occupies the 6th position among top 10 environmental port priorities and Carbon Footprint the 8th position. This reflects the importance of these two issues in the whole set of environmental priorities. Data collection has been identified as the main challenge ports encounter to implement a carbon management program. The need for a common port-sector Carbon Footprint scheme, which would benefit individual port authorities and the port-sector as a whole, was highlighted by the participants.

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  • Sahar Azarkamand & Alsnosy Balbaa & Christopher Wooldridge & Rosa Mari Darbra, 2020. "Climate Change—Challenges and Response Options for the Port Sector," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(17), pages 1-14, August.
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