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Kirk Waltz - Director, Government Services Business Development - Clean Energy Transition, American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)
Kirk Waltz is an Environmental Engineer with fifteen plus years of experience as an environmental consultant in heavy industry. His consulting work has included supporting regulatory agencies, water resources infrastructure, remediation in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries, and decarbonization in the maritime industry. His work has spanned the industry carbon lifecycle from wellfield extraction, refining, energy production, propulsion to disposal, capture and sequestration. Kirk is the capture lead for ABS’s contribution to the Department of Energy’s Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs Earthshot focused on the development of demonstration project opportunities for alternative fuels and alternative power options deployment in the marine, maritime and offshore industries.
Green Corridors and US Government Investment in Clean Energy
While there is no single scope for a Green Shipping Corridor (GSC), there are effective frameworks for initiating, developing, and implementing GSCs in alignment with international agreements (like the Clydebank Declaration), U.S. Department of State guidance on GSCs, and the EU Hydrogen Strategy. GSCs are collaborative initiatives among like-minded stakeholders focused on accelerating decarbonization for maritime operations along specific routes or in specific regions, and each GSC can uniquely focus on a set of specific goals for a specific set of maritime operations along a commercial route or through a defined region. This can include ocean going vessels along the shipping routes, commercial harbor craft, articulated tug barges, ferries, or cruise ships, to name a few.
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