Should shipping giants pay more tax to help combat their climate impacts?

Michael Holder
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Analysis shows the world's biggest shipping firms are raking in multi-billion dollar profits - and driving up carbon emissions - while paying a fraction of the taxes other industries face

Should the world's largest shipping companies pay more tax to help fund the decarbonisation and climate resilience projects that are necessitated by the industry's outsized carbon footprint? That is...

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