Key point:
- The International Maritime Organization (IMO) held its latest round of negotiations to discuss how to move forward on the climate regulation of the shipping industry.
- Campaigners said growing support for the world’s first-ever global emissions levy meant it was now more likely to be adopted by the IMO next year.
- “The United Nations is on the edge of adopting the world’s first-ever global emissions price, but the policy will only be as successful as countries make it to be,” said Sandra Chiri, shipping emissions international outreach manager at the Ocean Conservancy.