Hot air on shipping's CO2 emissions

THE recent One Planet Summit in Paris, convened by French president Emmanuel Macron, gave a much-needed political push to the International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) climate talks which will resume in April. At least that is the view of the environmental lobbyists who think that IMO is more or less a hopeless case and that next spring's meeting is the last chance for the UN agency to at last start to do something "meaningful" to cut the sector's greenhouse gas emissions and play its part in tackling global warming.

Another view would be …