US helps sink world’s first global carbon tax after threatening sanctions against countries supporting it

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1. [A fierce Trump administration push](https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/climate/imo-shipping-carbon-tax-trump?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit) to stop the global shipping industry from paying for its own climate pollution appeared to have been successful Friday, as efforts to approve the “world’s first global carbon tax” collapsed.

   It had been widely assumed the tax would be adopted during a summit in London at the International Maritime Organization, the UN-backed body that governs global shipping. But after four days of fraught negotiations, countries agreed to delay a vote on whether to approve it by 12 months.

   The decision came after a vociferous US campaign, with President Donald Trump calling it a “scam tax” and the State Department threatening reprisals on countries supporting it.

   Experts say the collapse of the talks marks not only a significant blow for attempts to clean up a heavily climate-polluting industry, undermining decades of negotiations, but also represents yet another failure of climate diplomacy.

2. make ecocide equivalent to genocide, punish deliberate industrial scale destruction of natural environments and severe pollution, as if its a crime against humanity

3. 🥺

4. “US helps”? I’m pretty sure they took point on this. This is all USA.

5. So long since the last day without a bad new about this thing of a country.

6. “Are we the baddies?”

   Yes. Yes we are. 

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