SHIPPING networks that keep the world's economy afloat will come under scrutiny at a meeting of the UN's International Maritime Organisation (IMO) that plans to reduce 'planet-heating pollution,' reports Agence France-Presse.
Nations are expected to agree ambitious emission reduction targets and consider a tax on pollution by the sector at a key meeting of the IMO.
The IMO Marine Environment Protection Commission (MEPC) meeting, held in London from Monday to Friday, is likely to pit climate-vulnerable nations - particularly Pacific islands - and some richer countries against big exporters such as China.
'The climate crisis is an existential threat to Pacific small island developing states, and many other countries, but can be seen as less urgent by countries with superior resources,' said Michael Prehn, the IMO delegate for the Solomon Islands.
'This is why the Pacific has been consistently pressing for the highest possible ambition in climate regulation.'Shipping, which is responsible for around two per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, is judged to be off course in the fight against climate change.
Efforts to decarbonize so far centre around a 2018 IMO decision that instructed shipping firms to reduce CO2 emissions by 50 per cent by 2050, from 2008 levels.
Some 45 countries - including the European Union, the United States, Britain, Fiji, the Marshall Islands and Norway - support a net zero target for the sector by 2050.
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Nations are expected to agree ambitious emission reduction targets and consider a tax on pollution by the sector at a key meeting of the IMO.
The IMO Marine Environment Protection Commission (MEPC) meeting, held in London from Monday to Friday, is likely to pit climate-vulnerable nations - particularly Pacific islands - and some richer countries against big exporters such as China.
'The climate crisis is an existential threat to Pacific small island developing states, and many other countries, but can be seen as less urgent by countries with superior resources,' said Michael Prehn, the IMO delegate for the Solomon Islands.
'This is why the Pacific has been consistently pressing for the highest possible ambition in climate regulation.'Shipping, which is responsible for around two per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, is judged to be off course in the fight against climate change.
Efforts to decarbonize so far centre around a 2018 IMO decision that instructed shipping firms to reduce CO2 emissions by 50 per cent by 2050, from 2008 levels.
Some 45 countries - including the European Union, the United States, Britain, Fiji, the Marshall Islands and Norway - support a net zero target for the sector by 2050.
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