By Kate Abnett and Simon Jessop BRUSSELS/LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Months of EU deliberation to decide which business activities can be marketed

By Will Wade and Jess Shankleman (Bloomberg) — The U.S. has officially become the first nation to quit the Paris climate agreement, even as the outcome

By Nina Chestney LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) – A global goal to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 will not be met without a huge acceleration in

By Tom Miles GENEVA, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Greenhouse gas emissions are on course to be about 30 percent above the level needed to keep global warming to an

By Anna Hirtenstein (Bloomberg) — The trillion-dollar global shipping industry may soon be forced to curb greenhouse gas emissions under new rules backed

President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change will have no impact on the shipping

By Peter Levring (Bloomberg) — For Denmark, which relies more on wind energy than any other nation on the planet, Thursday last week was a pretty bad

  By Jessica Shankleman (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump wasn’t exaggerating when he said during his election campaign that the U.S. could

The landmark Paris Agreement to combat climate change became international law on Friday with its entry into force less than a year after it was unanimously

Maersk Group, owner of the world’s largest fleet containerships, says it is “disappointed’ that the landmark Paris agreement on climate

With no explicit reference to shipping in the historic climate deal unanimously adopted by almost 200 nations in Paris this weekend, it is now up to the

By Alister Doyle and Barbara Lewis PARIS, Dec 12 (Reuters) – The global climate summit in Paris forged a landmark agreement on Saturday, setting the

PARIS, Dec 12 (Reuters) – After four years of global negotiations, two weeks of intense talks and more than a few sleepless nights, climate officials

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is urging further support of CO2 reduction measures at the IMO regardless of the final outcome of the UN Climate

A draft climate agreement resulting from 11 days of negotiations at the COP21 climate talks in Paris and published Wednesday afternoon makes no explicit

  By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Nov 2 (Reuters) – The shipping industry expects to be stung by a carbon levy as momentum building from climate talks in

  LONDON, Oct 16 (Reuters) – The global shipping industry is unlikely to meet an end-2016 deadline for setting targets and developing a plan to

  Members of the European Parliament are calling on the EU and all other countries to include a requirement for reducing emissions from international

  By Gavin van Marle, The Loadstar The Republic of the Marshall Islands’ (RMI) has launched a lacerating attack on the International Maritime

  International Maritime Organization Secretary General Koji Sekimizu has issued a strong call that any discussion on shipping’s contribution to global