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Amazon tries to ensure that the world is a little less Green by stopping others from using Greener shipping

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Look around you–the furniture in your office or house, the electronics, the clothes you are wearing, mostly likely some of your dinner–chances are these things moved by boat. About 85% of worldwide cargo travels by ship, and so it’s no surprise that shipping is a major contributor to climate change.

According to Richard Branson’s new NGO, which is called the Carbon War Room, the global shipping fleet is the equivalent on the sixth most polluting country in the world

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As ships get bigger, the pollution is getting worse. The most staggering statistic of all is that just 16 of the world’s largest ships can produce as much lung-clogging sulphur pollution as all the world’s cars.

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Reductions of 10 and 20 percent respectively are likely to be the European Union’s bid at UN-led climate talks in Bangkok this week.

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One giant container ship can emit almost the same amount of cancer and asthma-causing chemicals as 50m cars, study finds

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