Legal Insurrection by Leslie Eastman 10/18/2025
Globalist climate cultists and green-grifters hardest hit as Trump Team forces 1-year delay on maritime carbon tax vote.Back in August, I reported that the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a United Nations agency, had drafted the Net‑Zero Framework to align the global shipping industry with a 2050 net‑zero emissions target.
The IMO finalized the draft in April 2025. Its proposed system resembles a cap‑and‑trade model, with carbon charges between $100 and $380 per metric ton on emissions of the life-essential gas carbon dioxide (CO₂). This had the potential to generate $10–12 billion annually for a UN‑administered “green transition grift” fund.
This summer, the U.S. robustly rejected these plans.
The United States will not accept any environmental agreement that harms the interests of the American people. The International Maritime Organization’s proposal for a “Net-Zero
Framework” is a tax on Americans levied by an unaccountable UN organization. @SecDuffy,…
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) August 12, 2025
Still, the globalist grifters persisted and had planned to take a vote this week to formalize the rules and begin confiscating the dirty carbon dollars for global bureaucrats.
However, President Donald Trump’s band of economic and trade warriors have prevailed for the time being and the IMO has voted to delay for one year a decision on implementing a global maritime climate tax.
A majority of countries at the U.N. shipping agency voted on Friday to postpone by a year a decision on a global carbon price on international shipping, after failing to reach consensus on the emissions reduction measure amid U.S. pressure.
The delay is a blow to the European Union and other countries including Brazil which have been pushing for the shipping industry to go greener and set out a price mechanism for decarbonisation.
Washington and Riyadh, the world’s two largest oil producers, have strongly opposed a carbon price on shipping during talks in London at the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
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