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The international shipping industry is firmly committed to playing its part in reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and Green House Gases. International shipping is already, by far, the most carbon efficient mode of commercial transport (see graph). But it is fully recognised that CO2 emissions from the industry as a whole (some 3% of global emissions) are comparable to those of a major national economy. The shipping industry therefore accepts that the CO2 emission reductions which ships must aim to achieve should be at least as ambitious as the CO2 emission reductions agreed under any new United Nations Climate Change Convention. However,
shipping is the servant of world trade. The total emissions of shipping, as a
sector, will therefore be determined, to a significant extent, by the expected
long term growth of the world economy (and population) between now and 2050. Comparison of CO2 emissions between different modes of transport
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