Maritime nations agree to slash shipping emissions

Negotiators rubber-stamped a deal for shipping emissions to reach net zero ‘by or around’ 2050 (Mark J Terrill/AP)

Maritime nations have agreed to slash emissions from the shipping industry to net zero by about 2050 in a deal that some experts and nations say falls short of what is needed to curb warming to agreed temperature limits.

Negotiators at the meeting of the UN’s International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in London, seen as key to curb global warming to 1.5C since pre-industrial times, rubber-stamped a deal for shipping emissions to reach net zero “by or around” 2050.