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While the latest talks were less fraught than October’s, the International Maritime Organization’s Net-Zero Framework is far from a done deal.
If the world’s second largest steel producer is to cut emissions in the sector, the country must navigate a complex scrap metal landscape.
Transport
UN shipping talks more than a climate deal but ‘a test of global cooperation’s survival’: advocates
Negotiators at the intersessional IMO talks face mounting pressure over a proposed Net-Zero Framework, hailed by civil society as a measure of whether multilateralism can hold amid court-curbed Trump tariffs and industry moves toward cleaner fuels.
With a global plastics treaty still out of reach, experts say the region’s piecemeal bans on waste imports move the target without stemming the flow.
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