IMO postpones to December the decision on carbon pricing in international shipping

In the first week of September, the International Maritime Organization concluded the 22nd meeting of its intersessional working group on greenhouse gases without agreeing on the text of the carbon pricing mechanism under the Net-Zero Framework. Thirty-eight countries supported maintaining a revenue-generating mechanism, while seventeen opposed it. The final vote was deferred to a new extraordinary session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) in December 2026.

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