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"London (AFP) – The International Maritime Organization, which oversees the
highly polluting shipping industry, clinched a landmark deal on Friday to
improve its target to cut carbon emissions — but green campaigners said it
fell far too short to tackle climate change.
The London-based IMO said its Marine Environment Protection Commission has
adopted a "historic... strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from
international shipping".
Compared with 2008 levels, the United Nations' global shipping regulator said
nations had agreed to cut total annual emissions of greenhouse gases "by at
least 20 percent, striving for 30 percent, by 2030" and "by at least 70
percent, striving for 80 percent, by 2040".
That compared with the prior target for a 50-percent reduction by mid-century.
The deal came at the end of a five-day meeting at the IMO's headquarters in
London, attended by representatives from 100 countries involved in the shipping
industry — which emits roughly the same level of greenhouse gases as
aviation."
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