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Analysis: IMO will embark on its most important task ever at next week's meeting

The outcome of the upcoming climate summit will shape the most important agenda in decades – shipping’s CO2 emissions ahead of 2050.
The global climate target for the shipping industry was adopted in 2018 and calls for a 50-percent reduction by 2050 compared to 2008, when emissions peaked. Many hope that the requirement will now be tightened. | Photo: Axel Heimken/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
The global climate target for the shipping industry was adopted in 2018 and calls for a 50-percent reduction by 2050 compared to 2008, when emissions peaked. Many hope that the requirement will now be tightened. | Photo: Axel Heimken/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
by TOMAS KRISTIANSEN, Editor of SHIPPINGWATCH

When the UN’s International Maritime Organization, IMO, kicks off its next climate meeting on Monday, it will also tackle the most important agenda in its history – reducing shipping’s CO2 emissions in the years ahead of 2050. 

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