Landmark Tax on Ships’ Emissions Runs Into Trump Agenda (3)

A plan to make the shipping industry pay for its carbon emissions was hanging in the balance on Friday after the US piled pressure on nations to scrap an initiative that’s been years in the making.

Any failure to adopt the charge, or a delay to vote on it, would mark a setback for climate diplomacy and multilateral environmental regulations ahead of next month’s COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

“We’re not having climate negotiations here, we’re having geopolitical negotiations,” Faig Abbasov, director of shipping at Transport & Environment, an NGO, said on the sidelines of the talks. “The United ...