Environmental impact of shipping | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-15

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_shipping


00:01:18 1 Ballast water
00:02:19 2 Sound pollution
00:04:39 3 Wildlife collisions
00:06:23 4 Atmospheric pollution
00:07:41 4.1 Conventional pollutants
00:10:57 4.2 Greenhouse gas pollutants
00:13:12 4.3 Stress for improvement
00:15:05 5 Oil spills
00:16:18 6 International regulation
00:18:22 7 Sewage
00:20:34 8 Cleaning
00:22:03 9 Solid waste
00:24:08 10 Bilge water
00:25:51 11 Issues by region
00:26:01 11.1 Asia
00:26:10 11.2 European Union
00:27:27 11.3 United Kingdom
00:27:44 11.4 United States
00:28:43 12 See also



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The environmental impact of shipping includes air pollution, water pollution, acoustic, and oil pollution. Ships are responsible for more than 18 percent of some air pollutants.It also includes  greenhouse gas emissions. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) estimates that carbon dioxide emissions from shipping were equal to 2.2% of the global human-made emissions in 2012 and expects them to rise 50 to 250 percent by 2050 if no action is taken. The First Intersessional Meeting of the IMO Working Group on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ships took place in Oslo, Norway on 23–27 June 2008. It was tasked with developing the technical basis for the reduction mechanisms that may form part of a future IMO regime to control greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping, and a draft of the actual reduction mechanisms themselves, for further consideration by IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC).The fact that shipping enjoys substantial tax privileges has contributed to the growing emissions.