International Maritime Organisation

Shipping 'misses boat' to decarbonisation

Emma Fenton

| 29th April 2025

Maritime sector's new climate plans are historic - but also highly flawed.
Big polluters hijack shipping talks

Jocelyn Timperley

| 5th June 2019

UN shipping talks stalled as Saudi Arabia and the US obstructed attempts to decide how the sector should begin to decarbonise.
UK blocks maritime reform

Joe Sandler Clarke

| 20th November 2018

Move to open up International Maritime Organisation stopped by UK as it ‘could lead to outside influence'.
The murky world of international shipping is facing pressure to clean up its act on climate

Claire James

| 6th April 2018

A new report by Transparency International reinforces long-standing concerns that the shipping industry has undue influence over the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), which is meeting in London over the next two weeks to discuss climate change. CLAIRE JAMES reports

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