The International Maritime organisation’s 22nd Intersessional Working Group on greenhouse‑gas emissions has concluded with a clear majority of intervening member states backing a centralised revenue mechanism linked to a GHG price, the latest reporting shows. Sources indicated the item on 6 September 2026, citing the meeting’s outcome in its coverage of progress on the IMO’s Net Zero Framework.
According to the report, roughly two thirds of the states that took the floor expressed support for a centralised system to collect revenues. Those revenues would be operationalised through a GHG price, referred to in the notes as the RU price, and routed into a fund intended to reward early adopters and support a just and equitable transition.
The meeting is being framed as steady progress on the broader Net Zero Framework. Delegations' recorded backing for a pooled revenue approach underlines growing appetite among participating states for coordinated fiscal arrangements to underwrite shipping’s decarbonisation.
Centralised revenues and the RU price
The proposal favoured by a significant majority envisages a single mechanism for collecting funds generated by a prescribed price on greenhouse‑gas emissions. The reports summary states that contributions would be collected through the RU price and distributed from a centralised fund.
Funding would be allocated in part as rewards for early adopters of low‑emission solutions and in part to assist countries and sectors in managing a fair transition, the report added.
Implications for the Net Zero Framework
Support for a pooled revenue model is widely regarded by observers as a decisive indicator of member‑state intent to combine market signals with redistributive measures. The outcome reported from the 22nd Intersessional Working Group will inform further drafting and negotiation within the IMO process.
The working group’s conclusion does not, in the notes supplied, set out precise design details, implementation timetables or agreed governance arrangements for the fund. The account focuses on the degree of support expressed during the session and the principal purposes envisaged for centrally collected revenues.
Delegations attending the working group are described in the report as having emphasised the dual objectives of incentivising early uptake of low‑carbon technologies and ensuring a just and equitable transition for those more exposed to the economic impacts of decarbonisation policies.
The reports item frames the working group’s outcome as part of incremental but tangible movement towards an operational Net Zero Framework at the IMO. The organisation’s intersessional meetings are intended to narrow differences and prepare technical and policy options for formal consideration by member states in subsequent sessions.
The report supplied in the verified notes concentrates on the quantitative indication of support, two thirds of those who spoke, and on the broad policy contours of the preferred approach: a centralised revenue system underpinned by a GHG price (RU price), and a fund to reward early implementation and to foster an equitable transition.
The facts summarised here derive from the reports coverage dated 6 September 2026. No further procedural outcomes or specific commitments beyond those described in that report are recorded in the supplied notes.