News / Marshall Islands berates 'shameful' IMO as it ignores climate change threat

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The foreign minister of the Marshall Islands yesterday delivered an impassioned speech calling for greater curbs to CO2 emissions by shipping, after seeing its request for more stringent curbs rejected by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) this week.

In late April, Tony de Brum had issued a proposed to the IMO’s Maritime Environment Protection Committee’s (MEPC) 68th meeting, held in London this week, “for the setting of a new global target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping, a growing ...