Dirty Shipping and Aviation Set for Collision with Fossil Awards

Not a Party, but two international organisations received the First Place Fossil today: the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). Put your tray tables up and close the port holes–IMO and ICAO have the same emissions as Japan and Germany combined! These emissions are currently exempt from inclusion in the Paris agreement and IMO and ICAO are doing their worst here to keep it that way. Yet without action, emissions from bunkers will grow 270% by 2050–sinking any chance of limiting temperature rise to safer levels. International shipping and aircraft enjoy tax free fuel to … Continue reading Dirty Shipping and Aviation Set for Collision with Fossil Awards