7,600 passengers, 365 meters long, 7 swimming pools… Faced with such figures, the question of environmental impact of the future transatlantic icon of the seas challenges Although bookings for this tour vessel began in late October, the cruise industry is regularly noted.
Therefore, they often arrive at ports with fragile ecosystems, which they damage in particular due to their size, stressed the World Tourism Organization, which depends on the UN, in a relationship 2016. The latter also mentions the air pollution caused by these ships, which “burn fuel while moored at a destination without an adequate purification system.”
A review of the literature on the subject, published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin in December 2021, valued that in seven days, the passengers of a antarctic cruise they emit as much CO2 as the average European for a whole year. A lining likeicon of the seas “It pollutes infinitely more than an airplane,” says François Gemenne, a researcher specializing in climate policy and co-author of the latest IPCC report, on BFMTV on Monday.
For’icon of the seasRoyal Caribbean International highlights its use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as the “cleanest marine fuel”. It is also the argument of the Swiss cruise line MSC, which presented its “MSC World Europe” in October, first ocean liner built in France powered by LNG Y presented as the least polluting of the world fleet. “We have to remember that gas is still a fossil fuel,” so LNG also emits CO2, François Gemenne told BFMTV on Monday. “The gas in all its forms consists of methane, a dangerous greenhouse gas,” explains the NGO Friends of the Earth in a relationship of July.
The NGO classifies each year major cruise lines according to its action in favor of the environment. The criteria taken into account are wastewater treatment, reduction of air pollution, water quality and transparency. in 2022Royal Caribbean ranks near the bottom, with the lowest score for three of the four criteria.
Source: BFM TV
