Trump's threats succeed in halting global plan to clean up shipping emissions

A PLAN to cut greenhouse gas emissions in shipping supported by much of the maritime industry was shelved Friday by delegates to a UN regulatory body following threats from President Donald Trump that he would punish countries backing the measure.

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The International Maritime Organisation (IMO), which regulates global shipping, had agreed in the spring to move ahead with its plan to zero out the sector's emissions, leading to escalating threats from the Trump administration.

"We're calling on other nations to vote with us or face serious consequences," Michael Waltz, the US ambassador to the United Nations wrote Thursday on the social media platform X.

Trump, in his own social media post, vowed that "[t]he United States will NOT stand for the Global Green New Scam Tax on Shipping and will not adhere to it in any way, shape or form." He branded the plan a scheme by bureaucrats to raise prices on American consumers to pursue "their Green Dreams."