After long days of talks, haggling and compromise, some progress was made in London as nations came together.
Global shipping is set to have an emissions levy imposed upon it after gruelling United Nations negotiations ended with an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and develop a mechanism to drive the cuts.
But both measures were opposed to varying extents by an array of countries. A group of South American nations opposed the levy, saying it was akin to a tax on distance and would reinforce the inequities of colonialism. The special agony of global climate talks is that decisions can only be made by consensus, and by Thursday, many of the more ambitious nations had already conceded all they believed they could.
International Maritime Organisation secretary-general Kitack Lim described the final agreement as a momentous achievement in the history of the IMO and the negotiators who had achieved it as heroes and heroines.
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