FIRST-TIME SHIPPING GREENHOUSE INDEX PROCEEDS AFTER DISPUTE TABLED

October 21, 2004
International negotiators have tabled a dispute over pending climate change guidelines for ships, allowing officials to continue developing a first-time procedure for calculating greenhouse gas emissions from ocean-going vessels. An environmental committee within the International Maritime Organization (IMO) met in London Oct. 11-15 to consider issues that included a pending draft of an "indexing scheme" for maritime greenhouse gas emissions. Prior to the meeting, EPA and other U.S. officials had raised concerns about a possible move among developing countries to...


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