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Industry Bodies: Include Shipping in COP21 Deal

The global shipping industry organizations are calling for shipping to be brought back in the latest draft text, issued days before talks were due to end at COP21 climate talks in Paris, by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). “The dropping of international aviation and shipping emissions from the draft Paris climate agreement makes keeping a temperature increase under 2 degrees close to impossible. Countries must insist that the Paris deal also tackles the two elephants in the room: planes’ and ships’ emissions,” T&E policy officer Andrew Murphy said

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), which has represented global ship operators throughout the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, is supporting the move, along with the European shipowners, the European Commission, MEPs and various stakeholders.