A two-year plan to implement legal, policy-related, institutional-development and capacity-building activities in the ten Lead Pilot Countries (LPCs) participating in the GloMEEP project was agreed at the project conception meeting which took place this week (30 September-1 October) in Singapore. Launched on 28 September at the IMO-Singapore Future-Ready Shipping 2015 conference, the GloMEEP project aims to support increased uptake and implementation of energy-efficiency measures for shipping. Also agreed at the meeting were the next steps in the formation of a Global Industry Alliance (GIA) for low carbon shipping, within the project framework. GloMEEP is a joint project of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and IMO.