By Faïg Abbasov, shipping director at Transport & Environment & Aoife O’Leary, director for international climate at the Environmental Defense FundThis op-ed was first published in EurActiv After thirty years of regulatory silence on international shipping emissions, the European Union (EU) has now committed to act by extending its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to cover the maritime sector. Not surprisingly, much of the shipping industry is trying to prevent this by stoking trade tensions and raising international legal questions. Their goal is ostensibly to scare the EU and member states against climate action on shipping. Politics aside, legally speaking, this is an incompetent effort to say the least. Here’s why.
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