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Don’t Let the Shipping Industry Gobble Up Land

30 Mar, 2025

A giant container ship near Savannah, Georgia

The IMO Should Listen to Outcry Over False “Green” Bioenergy Solution Bioenergy, including crop-based biofuel, is often portrayed as “low-carbon,” but it isn’t, and the global shipping authority must recognize this. Otherwise, the ships delivering our goods could soon be fuelling deforestation and human rights violations. By Megan Morrissey, Global Forest Coalition A shorter version of this op-ed was published in Context, a publication of Thomson Reuters Foundation on March 5, 2025   As consumers, we don’t know much—or really …

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