'Strong signal': Is the global shipping industry en route to agreeing a first global carbon price?

Michael Holder
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International Maritime Organisation agrees draft outline of potential measures that would price greenhouse gas emissions from shipping - but divisions over the route forward remain

Hopes of establishing legally-binding rules that would set a global carbon price for the shipping industry and mandate the use of a growing share of green fuel across the sector have taken a tentative...

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