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Global Shipping Is Part of the Climate Problem, Too: Editorial
April 5, 2018 by Bloomberg
By James Gibney and Clive Crook (Bloomberg View)
SNIPPET 1:
Already,
international shipping accounts for about
as much carbon dioxide each year as Germany’s whole economy. On current trends, its share of the total will rise quickly. It could account for roughly 15 percent of the global carbon budget set by the Paris accord for 2050.
SNIPPET 2:
The main thing next week is to acknowledge that confronting
climate change is too urgent a goal for any sector of the global economy to be given a pass. Full article:http://gcaptain.com/global-shipping-part-climate-problem-editorial/