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Green shipping pioneers brace for battle to chart climate-friendly course forward

Shipping representatives gather this week to chart a course for climate action | Credit: Kereplaz
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'High Ambition Coalition' for shipping is hopeful of meaningful progress as nations gather for latest the International Maritime Organisation meeting

For 20 years the shipping sector has been struggling to agree on a credible strategy for tackling climate change. Instead two decades of talks convened by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)...

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