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Climate Change! UN Punts on Shipping Carbon Tax, by Michael Swartz – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Climate Change! UN Punts on Shipping Carbon Tax, by Michael Swartz

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After pushback from the Trump administration, the United Nations decided — for now — not to pursue its latest climate change income redistribution scheme.

After a little-noticed UN proposal for “international tax cooperation” sponsored by African nations passed last year, some of its initial fruit was a proposal to enact a global tax on shipping.

As described by the editors of the Wall Street Journal, “The International Maritime Organization (IMO), a U.N. body based in London, hopes at its meeting this week to secure final approval for its ‘net-zero framework’ for shipping. The measure would impose charges per metric ton of carbon dioxide that ships emit above certain limits; the tax would be $100 or $380 per metric ton, depending on various factors. That could translate to an annual tax take of $10 billion-$12 billion.” …

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