How Trump Pressured Nations to Delay a Carbon Tax on Shipping

Environmentalists eager to curb planet-warming pollution from shipping had grown increasingly confident that countries would adopt the first-ever global tax on emissions this year.

But those predicting success failed to fully account for President Donald Trump harnessing the might of the US against it.

On Friday, nations at a meeting of the UN’s International Maritime Organization voted to delay by one year a decision on the landmark measure that would force large vessels to curb emissions or potentially incur fees of $380 per ton.

The outcome was in part the culmination of a months-long campaign by US officials — including ...