BBCNEWS Business Briefing July 13, 2024
Whether it is cars, clothes, smartphones or the raw material to make them, the vast majority of the stuff we buy is sent around the world by ship, and the greenhouses gases that produces are being targeted at a un meeting here in london this week. In fact, 90 of global trade involves stuff being moved around by sea. But the industry wasnt included in the paris climate agreement, which the us is pulling out of. However, it is signifcant because it creates about 3 of the global Greenhouse Gas emissions that are causing climate change, and that is why governments want to reduce them. One answer i...