Emissions from international shipping - in 2018
About
This is a semester course with Professor Boris Müller designed to familiarize students with the topic of climate change and its effects.
"The course will develop visualizations to explore, understand and use climate scenarios." - Prof. Boris Müller
My findings from the project were that global shipping produces as much CO2 emissions as Germany, an industrialized country.
The objective was to determine the amount of emissions hidden in the transportation of consumer goods by sea.
Data research, looking for data
My initial idea is to visualize my findings using data from the International Maritime Organization (IMO), combined with data from the global emission sectors for scaling.
Illustration Process
Final poster for our University of Applied Science Potsdam exhibition in 2019.
Final infographic of all cargo ships with CO2 emissions and dwt tons. My visualisation is based on the official IMO collection studies from 2018 for shipping emissions.
I would also have been interested to know how many emissions luxury yachts generate per DWT, but the IMO has not collected any data on this topic. There was also no data to be found in 2018.
(DWT = Deadweight tonnage)
Credits
Illustration & Research: Jens Ove Drößiger
Project Supervisor: Prof. Boris Müller
Project Supervisor: Prof. Boris Müller
Data Source