Legal Insurrection by Leslie Eastman 4/14/2025
If the IMO persists in its Net Zero insanity, it will sail into the FO phase of the FAFO cycle.President Donald Trump recently issued an executive order targeting state-level climate policies that impose restrictions or penalties on fossil fuel companies. He argued that such regulations “unduly discriminate” against these companies and raise energy costs for Americans.
He is now turning around and ending US involvement in international organizations seeking to impose senseless carbon-based restrictions.
The Trump administration recently announced the country’s withdrawal from the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) negotiations on decarbonization. This decision, made during the MEPC’s 83rd session in London last week, marks a significant shift in U.S. engagement away from global environmental agreements that Americans no longer wish to have imposed on this nation.
The United States has withdrawn from talks in London looking at advancing decarbonisation in the shipping sector and Washington will consider “reciprocal measures” to offset any fees charged to U.S. ships, according to a diplomatic note seen by Reuters.
Delegates are at the U.N. shipping agency’s headquarters this week for negotiations over decarbonisation measures aimed at enabling the global shipping industry to reach net zero by “around 2050”.
A State Department spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday that Washington would not be “engaging in negotiations” at the U.N.’s International Maritime Organization (IMO), adding that it was the administration’s policy to put U.S. interests first in the “development and negotiation of any international agreements”.
An initial proposal by a bloc of countries including the European Union, which was submitted to the IMO, had sought to reach agreement for the world’s first carbon levy for shipping on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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