Intersessional Working Group on GHG Emissions from ships meets in London, 1-4 September

The meeting, held in London (with online participation) from 1 to 4 September 2026, is chaired by Mr. Sveinung Oftedal (Norway) and will prepare for the forthcoming session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 85) in November/December.

Agenda

The agenda of the meeting includes:   

• Consideration of proposals, including documents submitted to the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 84 and 85), previous sessions of ISWG-GHG, as well as documents submitted to ISWG-GHG 22, on how to address concerns with the draft amendments to MARPOL Annex VI on the Net-Zero Framework, in line with the 2023 IMO GHG Strategy. 
• Further consideration of the draft guidelines supporting the uniform and effective implementation of IMO's mid-term measures.  
• Further consideration of the development of the IMO Life Cycle GHG Assessment (LCA) framework. 

The next meeting of the Intersessional Working Group (ISWG-GHG 23) is scheduled for 23 to 27 November 2026, ahead of MEPC 85 (30 November to 3 December).  

The second extraordinary session of MEPC (adjourned last October) is scheduled to resume on 4 December, subject to discussions at MEPC 85. 

Note to media 

The ISWG-GHG 22 is meeting in closed session. There is no media attendance permitted, in person or online. IMO will share a note on the discussions after the session ends.  

Agenda documents

(for IMODOCS - use web account log in if you are accredited media, or create a free public account)

• MEPC 84 outcomes (for background)
• Documents submitted to ISWG-GHG 22 - available publicly via IMODOCS (37 documents total)  
• Provisional Agenda 
• Annotated Agenda - Annotations to the provisional agenda, provisional list of documents and provisional timetable.
• Documents submitted directly to MEPC 85 
• Documents submitted to MEPC 84: Agenda item 7 
• MEPC 84 full report 

Photos  

• Photos from the ISWG-22 opening today: ISWG-GHG (22nd Session) | Flickr
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