Shipping by ocean is surprisingly low in carbon emissions.
Manufacturing abroad is tricky. It takes some creativity to appropriately tax carbon emissions embodied in imported goods.
Manufacturing abroad is tricky. It takes some creativity to appropriately tax carbon emissions embodied in imported goods.
> Shipping accounts for up to 3% of global emissions and 10% of transport emissions – roughly the same as aviation
Shipping emissions equalling aviation emissions is surprisingly high, to me.
It's hard to interpret this as anything other than maliciousness.
Surprisingly low emissions per amount of cargo transported, yes. But the absolute amount of emissions is still huge and the amount of cargo keeps growing, so I don't think this measure is very relevant.
Cargo ships are better for the environment than shipping the same amount of goods from China to the US via trucks. But as the latter isn't possible anyway, this is not a very tangible benefit.
What would benefit the environment was shipping less goods.