Landmark global shipping deal in tatters after US pressure

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

A landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions has been abandoned after Saudi Arabia and the US succeeded in ending the talks.

More than 100 countries had gathered in London to approve a deal first agreed in April, which would have seen shipping become the world's first industry to adopt internationally mandated targets to reduce emissions.

But President Trump had called the plan a "green scam" and representatives of his administration had threatened countries with tariffs if they had voted in favour.

Reflecting the pressure countries faced, the Secretary General of the International Maritime Organisation Arsenio Dominguez issued a "plea" for this not to be repeated.

In a dramatic conclusion on Friday, when countries should have been voting to approve the deal, Saudi Arabia tabled a motion to adjourn the talks for a year.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vnl0yxg53o

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Let's be clear here: This is Trump actively threatening countries who want to combat global warming and save lives. Morally, he's shooting people on Fifth Avenue. Or on the Caribbean.

This is yet another reason he must never be given a "Peace Prize" of any sort. His motivation for this? Bribes from the Saudis or other petro-states, probably, plus he wants to bully countries.

[BOSSHOG]

1. GREEN SCAMS, FELONY CONVICTIONS, EPSTEIN, YOUNG REPUBLICANS

NON STOP LIES, NEVER ENDING HATE. The right wing message machine has been a total success. View with awe what they cherish.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Gotta squeeze every penny out of every drop of the black gold, don't we?

Petrodollars.

[wolfie001]

7. Same "kingdom" that executes teh gays

That's prolly what the medal's for.

[wiggs]

8. When it comes down to it, global oil and gas reserves are one of the giant pots of gold that TPTB are after

in creating a new world order based on authoritarian rule. Look at the alliances TSF has pursued in one way or another (including Venezuela now). Close to the SAE, Qatar, Turkey, Hungary, Russia, Israel, N Korea axis rumored during his first term...and now going after Venezuela, Iran, Iraq.

Other pots of gold include US tax dollars, pensions, Medicare and Medicaid, public lands, etc. Bosses want a taste of everything...public and private. And have long known that cruelty, authoritarianism, fascism is the way to get at it.

People have written about these kinds of suspicions. I suspect we have little grasp of how vast and far along this gambit is.

[Buddyzbuddy]

3. First our towers and now the world.

Way to go you fat f*cking Felon. There is nobody and nothing he won't sell out if it'll make him a nickel.

[in2herbs]

4. What I've read is that SA is constructing a huge green energy plant and a huge de-salizination plant in their country,

yet they are against green? I think it's to get f45 so indebted in oil that their take over of the US will be simple.

[wolfie001]

6. This is part of their diplomatic sword dance where they fuck all the world's poors

Nothing shocking really. Status quo from these bastards.

[wolfie001]

5. Total bullshit coming from the fat-pig orange imbecile

Every edict is either a lie or something idiotic. Amazing that ANYONE supports this horrific "person".