Last week, the agency took a big step in the right direction with the introduction of the world’s first sector-wide carbon ...

Shipping companies worldwide are set to face the first international carbon tax on the industry, as many of the largest shipping nations agreed to new rules despite threats of retaliation from the ...

Nations are trying to reach an agreement to charge commercial vessels a fee for their emissions in what would effectively be the world’s first global carbon tax.

A new carbon pricing system adopted by the International Maritime Organization could reduce global shipping emissions ...

Member states of a United Nations agency focused on maritime shipping and pollution agreed Friday to a global deal to tax carbon emissions from ships — a measure that the Trump administration ...

AP Many of the world's largest shipping nations will decide Friday whether to impose a tax on carbon emissions from ships. If the 174 International Maritime Organization members present — all but the ...

Government representatives are meeting this week to finalize the first-ever global carbon tax on ocean shipping emissions in ...

As the UN's shipping body, the International Maritime Organization, meets to decide on a pivotal levy that will tax ships for using polluting fuels, host Graihagh Jackson and BBC Climate Reporter Esme ...

Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships, if their planet-heating emissions are not already ...

the agency took a big step in the right direction with the introduction of the world’s first sector-wide carbon tax. More than 60 member states approved a complex system that requires shipping ...