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Home arrow News arrow Asia arrow Shipping now accounts for 4.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions: UN
Shipping now accounts for 4.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions: UN Print E-mail
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
The true scale of climate change emissions from shipping is almost three times higher than previously believed, according to a leaked UN study seen by the UK's Guardian. It calculates that annual emissions from the world's merchant fleet have already reached 1.12bn tonnes of CO_, or nearly 4.5% of all global emissions of the main greenhouse gas. The report suggests that shipping emissions - which are not taken into account by European targets for cutting global warming - will become one of the largest single sources of manmade CO_ after cars, housing, agriculture and industry. By comparison, the aviation industry, which has been under heavy pressure to clean up, is responsible for about 650m tonnes of CO_ emissions a year, just over half that from shipping.

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