What We Do

Analysis & Strategic Insights

Built on rigorous data and trusted collaboration, MARBEM delivers the analysis and insights needed to navigate shipping’s path beyond methane-based fuels. We turn complex information in a rapidly changing world into actionable commitments—helping decision-makers move from uncertainty to progress.

  • Commission Research

    Request targeted LNG analysis to address evidence gaps affecting policy, regulatory, and investment decisions.

  • Request Policy Briefs

    Obtain concise, decision-ready LNG shipping briefs for local, national, and international policy processes.

  • Seek Technical Advice

    Seek guidance on maritime operations, including LNG fuel and engine specifications, and LNG legal risks and exposure.

  • Access Media Insights

    Access expert LNG spokespeople, data-driven fuel insights, and narrative analysis to shape accurate, compelling stories.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Full lifecycle climate impacts
    Upstream methane leakage, downstream methane slip, and the limits of CO₂-only and tank-to-wake accounting.

  • Methane and near-term warming risk
    Methane emissions, GWP time horizons, and accounting choices that affect real-world climate performance.

  • Regulatory design and compliance risk
    How lifecycle guidelines, default factors, and mass-balance shape fuel markets and policy credibility.

  • Finance, lock-in, and stranded-asset exposure
    Public and private capital risk under tightening methane-inclusive rules and net-zero pathways.

  • Market and reputational signals
    Legal rulings and greenwashing scrutiny influencing investment and fuel choices.

  • System-level transition compexities
    Infrastructure lock-in, demand growth assumptions, and energy-system constraints beyond fuels.

“Compared to major global ports in other countries, South Korea's small market share in LNG bunkering underscores the realistic limitations on the country's aspirations to lead the international LNG bunkering industry.”

John Yum, Solutions For Our Climate, Shipping Team Lead

“Under international law, all States—including those outside climate treaties—are legally obliged to regulate LNG production and use, ensuring its full climate and health impacts are addressed and alternatives prioritized.”

Nancy Carmina García Fregoso, Equal Routes, Legal Coordinator


“From a precautionary and energy-centric perspective—rather than a narrow, fuel-centric one—wind propulsion and electrification technologies stand out as the most promising zero-emission and low-cost energy pathways for shipping.”

Dr. Sian Prior, Seas At Risk, Shipping Director & Clean Arctic Alliance, Lead Advisor

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