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Lloyd's Register Maritime Decarbonisation Hub
A partnership between Lloyd’s Register Foundation and the Lloyd’s Register Group
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Duration
This project's duration was 2023 - 2028
Value of grant
£8.5mil
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The Decarb Hub delivers credible, evidence-based interventions that help shape a safe, sustainable transition for maritime.
Vision and mission of the Decarb Hub
The mission of the Decarb Hub is to drive the safe, sustainable, and human-centric transition of the maritime industry, by building coalitions that deliver programmes of research, insights, and policy to unlock shipping’s decarbonisation and accelerate zero emissions fuel adoption.
Its vision is for a decarbonised shipping industry, with human safety and sustainability at its core.
Find out more about the Decarb Hub
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The Lloyd’s Register Maritime Decarbonisation Hub (commonly known as the Decarb Hub) is an independent, non-profit initiative established through a partnership between Lloyd’s Register Foundation — a global charity with a mission to engineer a safer world — and Lloyd’s Register Group, a global provider of maritime professional services with over 260 years of heritage.
This partnership brings together the Foundation’s public benefit mandate and focus on societal resilience, with the Group’s deep technical expertise and trusted relationships across the maritime industry. Positioned at the intersection of these two organisations, the Hub is uniquely equipped to accelerate the safe, sustainable, and human-centric decarbonisation of global shipping — combining neutrality with influence, and research with real-world application.
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A partnership of strength
The Maritime Decarbonisation Hub was created through the partnership of two founding entities: Lloyd’s Register Foundation and Lloyd’s Register Group. Each brings distinct strengths — and together, they enable the Hub to operate with a uniquely powerful platform for impact.
Lloyd’s Register Foundation is a global charity focused on engineering a safer world. Its support ensures that the Hub is driven by public good, not commercial gain. The Foundation anchors our mission in societal impact, enabling us to act independently, with a clear mandate to advance safety, sustainability, and inclusive progress across the maritime sector.
Lloyd’s Register Group, with over 260 years of history, brings world-renowned technical expertise, deep maritime knowledge, and trusted relationships across the global shipping ecosystem. It ensures we stay connected to the operational realities of the industry — helping us translate research and insight into action on the ground.
Together, this partnership empowers the Decarb Hub to work across boundaries — independent but embedded, mission-driven yet deeply practical. It’s this combination that enables us to deliver credible, evidence-based interventions that help shape a safe, sustainable transition for maritime.
Carlo Raucci Director, Sustainable Fuels and Strategy
“The Maritime Decarbonisation Hub is working towards a safe, sustainable, human-centric transition of the maritime industry. We achieve this by building coalitions, running programmes of research, proving new insights to key stakeholders so that we can accelerate the decarbonisation of the shipping industry and therefore the adoption of sustainable and zero-emission fuels”
