The renewed Strategy sets a bold new vision: to "phase out emissions from seaport-related activities by 2050, supporting cleaner air for our local communities and fulfilling our shared responsibility to help limit global temperature rise to 1.5ºC." The vision was developed through an engagement process with community, government, and industry participants. Engagement informed a major change to the 2020 NWPCAS vision, which was originally drafted as, "Phase out emissions from seaport-related activities as early as possible this century...". To recognize the urgency of the climate crisis emphasized by many and align with the latest climate science form the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the participating Ports added the specificity and increased the level of ambition to phase-out emissions by 2050. The discussion of the vision and emission reduction targets in the Strategy acknowledges that the vision seeks to go further than some ports' established targets, and the pathways to phase out fossil fuels remain unknown for some sectors.
