CARNIVAL under pressure from Extinction Rebellion

With the attention on climate change ramping up due to the focus on the Amazon burning, Extinction Rebellion Southampton are urging Carnival Cruises to become more environmentally friendly.
The group only last month staged a "die-in" at the Cruise companies UK HQ in Southampton.
But now the climate activist group want to apply more pressure so that Carnival change the fuel type they use and also how long they leave the engines on whilst docked.
In a Statement a Carnival spokesman said:
"We would welcome the opportunity to meet face to face with Extinction Rebellion. Preserving and protecting the environment is one of Carnival Corporation's highest priorities. Not only is our very existence tied to protecting the oceans, seas and communities in which we operate, but operating responsibly is also the right thing to do. It is a business imperative for us to conduct all of our operations with great respect for the environment. We have thousands of itineraries each year that travel to and through some of the most pristine areas in the world, and we embrace the significant responsibility that places on us as stewards of the ocean environment.
We have an obligation to ourselves, our guests, our stakeholders and the more than 700 destinations we visit around the world to protect the environment in which we live, work and travel and this includes our UK home port of Southampton.
We have backed up our declared priorities with concrete actions and improvements. Over the last three years, we have spent almost a billion dollars on environmental initiatives, implemented new and more effective procedures, and invested in hundreds of thousands of hours of training for our crew members - not only to meet our compliance targets but to strive to constantly improve every day in environmental excellence and stewardship.
We have reduced our carbon footprint by a rate of more than 25 percent in the past few years, three years ahead of schedule, and we are on track to meet and exceed all of our nine remaining 2020 sustainability targets for reducing our environmental footprint, enhancing the health, safety and security of our guests and crew, and protecting the oceans and destinations we visit. Together with fellow CLIA (industry) members, we are helping lead the global cruise industry's commitment to reduce the rate of carbon emissions across the industry fleet by 40 percent by 2030. We have also committed across the global fleet to significantly reduce the use of single-use plastics, as well as reduce overall food waste from our ships.
We have pioneered the development of and installed Advanced Air Quality Systems (AAQS) on more than 75 percent of our fleet to date, representing an investment of $500 million, with a goal of installation on 85% of the fleet by the end of 2020. These systems significantly improve air emissions by using sea water to remove sulfur and reduce other compounds present in engine exhaust with no impacts to the marine environment. We have started introducing the first cruise ships in the world to be powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) - the world's cleanest burning fossil fuel, making them even more environmentally friendly - and we expect 11 total LNG-powered ships to join our fleet through 2025. We are also making continuous efforts in the innovation space to reduce our energy consumption and look towards the future of zero emission cruising - an example being the recent announcements we have made around testing fuel cells and battery technology.
We are also the industry leader in shore power systems with installations on nearly 50 percent of our existing fleet and all of our newbuilds configured with shore power capabilities, allowing us to significantly decrease emissions while in ports that are also equipped with the technology. In Southampton we are working with ABP to discuss future technology for shore power options which must be sustainably sourced and viable long term."

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