International Maritime Organization

At this year’s U.N. climate conference, world leaders are proposing a “global solidarity levy” on high-polluting industries.

The International Maritime Organization has been asked to enact a carbon levy of $150 per ton of emissions from large freight and passenger ships. The IMO’s 175 member nations have until next year to vote.

It’s fair to say the shipping sector matters when it comes to putting efforts into reversing the interlinked issues the planet faces today. 

The decline in smog-causing aerosol particles resulting from China's ambitious cleanup efforts are an unlikely culprit for recent extreme heat waves in the Pacific. Scientists are grappling with the fact that reducing such pollution, while essential for public health, is also heating the atmosphere.

The shipping industry is finally embracing greener fuels, but which one, or ones, will they land on?

The United Nations' maritime agency says shipping companies ought to work with Indigenous communities to reduce noise pollution.

After all the talking, time for tangible solutions?

Facing an audience packed with world leaders and finance officials in suits, Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate silenced the room, then made everyone listen to some uncomfortable facts.

The trade group representing the cruise ship industry unsuccessfully pushed international authorities to water down new environmental regulations despite its members’ climate commitments, experts in marine air pollution warn.

Sri Lankan beaches buried in pellets are only the "tip of the iceberg" of environmental harm after analysis of nurdles from burning ship.

Canada is considering an international proposal that would double the ambition of its greenhouse gas emissions targets from shipping — a plan observers say the country seems ready to support.

A major maritime industry association on Monday, September 6, 2021, backed plans for a global surcharge on carbon emissions from shipping to help fund the sector's shift toward climate-friendly fuels.

Environmental groups say a new ban on a highly polluting shipping fuel in Arctic waters is full of gaps and Canada should not make use of loopholes in the new regulations for heavy fuel oil.

A new wave of cold water is about to hit Canada's much-buffeted oilsands industry but whether it will be a perfect storm or a tempest in a teapot is yet to be seen.

The shipping industry is under increased scrutiny after two cargo ships were fined for sailing too fast through the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where the rising death toll among endangered North Atlantic right whales has been partly blamed on collisions with vessels.