IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim delivered a reminder about the importance of balanced and sustainable development at the Ocean Leadership conference. In a keynote address, Mr. Lim spoke of Sustainable Development Goals as unifying factor breathing life into global efforts to improve the lives of people everywhere. He confirmed IMO’s commitment to the 2030 Sustainability Agenda. He highlighted moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions, reducing sulphur content of ships’ fuel oil, requiring strict ballast water management and adopting the Polar Code as recent examples of IMO’s own sustainability agenda. Read more.