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"Dramatic changes in energy industry and EVs reducing fossil fuel use, but shipping, aviation and industry a long way from net zero"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/09/biggest-fossil-fuel-emissions-shipping-plane-manufacturing

This report makes some business-as-usual assumptions. E.g.
"Growth".
And they forget that 40% of global shipping is of fossil fuels.
And that countries like the US are re-shoring industries (see CHIPS act).

Together, we still have choices.
Let's make the right choices: on our plates, what we buy, whom we vote for.

CelloMomOnCars OP ,
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Wow, there is talk of a worldwide .
For one sector, . But still.

"Campaigners said growing support for the world’s first-ever global levy meant it was now more likely to be adopted by the IMO next year.

A proposal put forward by Belize and some Pacific Island states at the talks called for a levy of $150 per ton of carbon.

Delegates at the IMO are next expected to hold talks in the fall."

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/22/worlds-first-ever-global-emissions-tax-takes-a-step-closer-to-reality.html

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