Landmark global shipping deal abandoned under US threats

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared the outcome a "huge win" for Trump.
60% : This means without intervention the International Maritime Organisation previously estimated that by 2050 emissions could grow by between 10% and 150%.The meeting this week in London between nations had been to make the final approval and finalise the next steps.
59% : The deal was first agreed in April after ten years of negotiations and was considered historic as it meant shipping was set to become the first industry in the world with internationally mandated targets to reduce emissions.
56% : 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.
54% : "A delay in action may require changes to the text of agreement that undermine the planned timeline, and could revert years of work to date," said Blánaid Sheeran, an observer to the talks and policy officer at environmental NGO Opportunity Green.
51% : "There is no fuel as cheap as diesel that ships use today because when we take crude oil out of the ground, we take out all the nice bits, that's the kerosene for aviation, diesel and petrol for cars," Faig Abbasov, programme director for maritime transport at think tank Transport and Environment, told the BBC during the last IMO negotiations.
42% : The UK and most EU nations voted to continue the talks, but some countries including Greece went against the EU bloc and voted to abstain.
42% : A delegate from the island states group told the BBC that these nations particularly rely on the US for trade and had been leaned on heavily by the Trump administration to change their position.

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