Global Shipping’s UN Climate Talks Fail Amid Threats Of A Walkout

Global Shipping’s UN Climate Talks Fail Amid Threats Of A Walkout

A massive krill transportation vessel of Aker BioMarine sits under construction at CIMC Raffles ... [+] Offshore Engineering(CIMC Raffles) on September 17, 2020 in Yantai, China.



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The UN agency responsible for setting climate targets for global shipping, was left red faced today, as delegates pushed measures that broke the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

After a week of talks, delegates at the UN's International Maritime Organization failed to agree to targets that would meet the Paris Agreement, as they had originally agreed to do in 2018, a deal the shipping industry hailed as ‘historic' and which 100 countries had voted on.

london-based headquarters of UN shipping agency, the International Maritime Organization



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