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来源：Hellenic Shippping News 2023-06-24

翻译：国际海事信息网 赵扬捷 张运鸿

        国际海事组织（International Maritime Organization, IMO）主席国法国在巴黎峰会结束时表示，在下个月的国际海事组织会议之前，有20多个国家和地区组织支持对航运业排放征税的建议。

        航运业排放的温室气体占总排放量的2.9%，由于公海不在任何一个政府的管辖范围内，因此在很大程度上逃脱了征税。

        如果联合国管理航运的机构——国际海事组织对碳排放征税，这将鼓励托运人更快地实现绿色发展。然后，该机构可以将筹集到的资金，也许是每年1000亿美元，输送给较贫穷的国家，帮助他们应对气候变化。

        一份关于新的全球融资公约峰会讨论的主席摘要表示，23个国家和区域组织已承诺在2023年7月3日至7日的委员会会议上通过一项雄心勃勃的修订版IMO GHG（温室气体排放）战略。

        摘要表示：“使国际海运部门走上一条与将全球温度上升限制在1.5度的目标相一致的道路"。

        这些国家支持通过对航运业温室气体排放征税的原则。

        摘要表示："强调征税的收入应特别有助于航运业的'公正和公平的转型'。

        主席国提名丹麦、挪威、塞浦路斯、西班牙、斯洛文尼亚、摩纳哥、格鲁吉亚、瓦努阿图、韩国、希腊、越南、立陶宛、巴巴多斯、马绍尔群岛、所罗门群岛、爱尔兰、毛里求斯、肯尼亚、荷兰、葡萄牙、新西兰和欧盟委员会。

        航运业的免税地位已经面临挑战。从明年开始，所有船舶都必须为其在欧盟境内的排放购买许可证，并为其在欧盟和其他国家之间旅行时喷出的污染物购买一半的许可证。

        尽管欧盟不太可能同意征税，但它可以制定一个时间表来引入征税。

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Shipping emissions tax plan backed by some 20 countries at Paris summit

More than 20 countries and regional organisations have backed proposals for a levy on shipping industry emissions ahead of an International Maritime Organization (IMO) meeting next month, the French presidency said at the end of a Paris summit.

Shipping, which emits 2.9% of total greenhouse gases, has largely escaped taxation because the high seas are not in the jurisdiction of any one government.

If the IMO, the United Nations body which regulates shipping, taxed carbon emissions, it would encourage shippers to go green faster. The body could then channel the money raised, perhaps $100 billion a year, to poorer countries to help them cope with climate change.

A chair’s summary of discussions at the Summit on a New Global Financing Pact, said 23 countries and regional organisations had committed to adopt an ambitious revised IMO GHG (greenhouse emissions gas) strategy at its committee meeting between July 3-7 July 2023.

“To place the international maritime transportation sector on a pathway consistent with the goal to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees,” the summary said.

The countries supported the adoption of the principle of a levy on shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions, the summary said.

“Underlining that revenue from the levy should notably contribute to a ‘just and equitable transition’ of the shipping sector,” the summary said.

The presidency named Denmark, Norway, Cyprus, Spain, Slovenia, Monaco, Georgia, Vanuatu, South Korea, Greece, Vietnam, Lithuania, Barbados, Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Ireland, Mauritius, Kenya, Netherlands, Portugal, New Zealand and the European Commission.

The shipping industry’s tax-free status already faces challenges. From next year all ships will have to buy permits for their emissions within the EU, and half of what they spew out while travelling between the bloc and other countries.

Although it is unlikely to agree to a levy, it could set a timetable to introduce one.