MEPC 84 is on

[ombugge]

Delay tactics cast shadow over MEPC - Splash247

The usual suspects are trying to wreck the meeting:

The US has returned to the negotiating table this week, but not in a constructive spirit. Laura DiBella, chairman of the US Federal Maritime Commission, confirmed her attendance specifically to reinforce American opposition to the framework. “The NZF is, plainly, an unnecessary tax on US shippers and vessels operating in international waters. The NZF would cost the maritime industry billions of dollars annually. As the largest consumer of imported goods, these costs will be directly passed onto US consumers,” she said.

The political landscape remains treacherous. Japan has proposed removing the carbon pricing element entirely, while a bloc of oil-producing states including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Russia and Argentina wants the fossil fuel phase-out limits weakened. The EU, by contrast, has directed its 27 member states to resist any effort to remove the framework from future consideration.

"These costs will be directly passed onto US consumers”
How much does this add to the cost for US (and other) consumers, relative to the cost of tariffs, imposed by the Trump administration?

[Hornblower]

Is this why, every single lightbulb on the ship has been replaced by LED lamps?

Everywhere you go looks like the corridor to an autopsy ward but luckily we will now probably comply with some completely facile directive from a bunch of fuckwits that don’t have to live with the consequences.

Fucking shoreside bastards, ruining life at sea.

[Jughead]

@ombugge

The usual suspects are trying to wreck the meeting:

I suggest “the usual suspects” are benevolently saving the other idiots from their own stupidity. You aren’t saving the world. You are destroying civilisation.