Climate Risks in Shipping

CLIMA Lunch Seminar with Ana Stella Ebbersmeyer.

Abstract

This seminar will examine the climate-related transition risks facing maritime transport as it moves toward decarbonization. Drawing on a systematic literature review, it identifies five interlinked risk categories - litigation, policy, contractual, technological, and social - and explores their compounding effects. Using ammonia as a case study, the presentation will illustrate how regulatory uncertainty, innovation, and public perception shape risk profiles. Emphasis is placed on the need for coordinated legal and policy responses to support a resilient, low-carbon maritime sector.

About the speaker

Stella is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Climate Change Law and Governance (CLIMA), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. She is interested in international climate change and environmental law, maritime law and law of the sea as well as Arctic governance. Stella holds an LLB in International and European Law (Honour's) from the University of Groningen and an LLM and PhD from the University of Copenhagen. She defended her PhD thesis entitled Regulating Black Carbon Emissions from Arctic Shipping: The Role of Non-State Actors in International Law-Making in December 2024. Supervisor: Associate Prof. Beatriz Martinez Romera.

Registration

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