11 November - 11 November
Norton Rose Fulbright, London
The Marine Energy Transition Forum returns to London in November 2026 with the aim of identifying the chokepoints in global maritime decarbonisation and developing solutions and strategies to overcome them.
METF26 Programme
Programme details are updated regularly and are subject to change as new speakers are confirmed and themes developed.
If you feel you could make a significant contribution to the programme, please email Lesley Bankes-Hughes at [email protected] or call +44 1295 814455 to discuss this further.
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This session will consider how regulatory and industry levers for maritime’s decarbonisation are operating in practice. What is working and what requires a reappraisal? Topics up for discussion will include:
EU and national regulation (EU ETS, FuelEU Maritime, Emission Control Areas, the UK ETS)
Speakers in this session will consider the global new marine fuel supply chain – from production to delivery – and examine how it is taking shape and what are the challenges to its execution in terms of commercial resilience, fuel availability on a global and regional scale, fuel production at scale, and stakeholder and cross-sector collaboration. Specific focus areas will be:
The pace of technology development will be debated in this session – in relation to newbuild and also conventionally fuelled vessels already in the global fleet. Topics for discussion will include engine and fuel system technology, vessel optimisation and efficiency measures, retrofits – and financing technological innovation. Panellists will be drawn from across the maritime sector and will represent OEMs, as well as wind propulsion, battery, carbon capture, and digitalisation specialists. Discussions will centre on four key pillars:
This session will ask how expertise developed in other industry sectors is being applied to the decarbonisation of shipping and it will also look at the business climate for start-ups or more mature companies who are focused on delivering the sector’s energy transition, from a fuel, technology, or ancillary services perspective. The conversation will cover:
Ports are key stakeholders and, potentially, accelerators of shipping’s energy transition. They are developing strategies for the decarbonisation of their own working environment whilst accommodating market demand for the safe and efficient bunkering of new marine fuels, and, in some cases, establishing their individual profiles as import and export hubs for new energy commodities.
In this final session, port representatives will share their views on:
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