'The opportunity is there': Businesses join calls for bold shipping climate plan at crucial IMO talks

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Christiana Figueres and Marshall Islands' environment minister David Paul outside the IMO last week
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Christiana Figueres and Marshall Islands' environment minister David Paul outside the IMO last week

Christiana Figueres joins chorus of industry and green groups urging for ambitious action to decarbonise shipping sector, as crucial IMO talks rest on a 'knife edge'

Christiana Figueres, the former head of the UN climate change secretariat and one of the architects of the 2015 Paris Agreement, has warned the shipping industry it risks losing its position as the "backbone...

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