Oil Producers Saudi Arabia and UAE Call for Alternatives to IMO NZFby Ship & Bunker News TeamTwo inter-sessional meetings are scheduled for September 1-4 and November 23-27. The IMO Net-Zero Framework design does not treat distributional outcomes“These features imply that a uniform global compliance cost can produce uneven real-world burdens.” Saudi Arabia and the UAE also warned that compliance costs would increase with fuel consumption and voyage distance. “The IMO Net-Zero Framework also embeds geographic asymmetry through a distance-based markup,” they said. In an effort to reach broader consensus on the NZF, two inter-sessional meetings are scheduled for September and November ahead of MEPC 85.