Back in August, I reported that the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a United Nations agency, had drafted the Net‑Zero Framework to align the global shipping industry with a 2050 net‑zero emissions target.
The IMO finalized the draft in April 2025. Its proposed system resembles a cap‑and‑trade model, with carbon charges between $100 and $380 per metric ton on emissions of the life-essential gas carbon dioxide (CO₂). This had the potential to generate $10–12 billion annually for a UN‑administered “green transition grift” fund.
This summer, the U.S. robustly rejected these plans.
Still, the globalist grifters persisted and had planned to take a vote this week to formalize the rules and begin confiscating the dirty carbon dollars for global bureaucrats.
However, President Donald Trump’s band of economic and trade warriors have prevailed for the time being and the IMO has voted to delay for one year a decision on implementing a global maritime climate tax.
A majority of countries at the U.N. shipping agency voted on Friday to postpone by a year a decision on a global carbon price on international shipping, after failing to reach consensus on the emissions reduction measure amid U.S. pressure.The delay is a blow to the European Union and other countries including Brazil which have been pushing for the shipping industry to go greener and set out a price mechanism for decarbonisation.Washington and Riyadh, the world’s two largest oil producers, have strongly opposed a carbon price on shipping during talks in London at the International Maritime Organization (IMO).After days of disagreements, Saudi Arabia tabled a motion on Friday to defer discussions for one year, which was passed by a simple majority of 57 countries with 49 opposed who sought to continue with a deal.
The decision came after President Donald Trump calling this proposal a “scam tax” and and threatened reprisals on countries supporting it.
This is a huge win for the Trump Team, the U.S., and nations who appreciate functional trade networks and affordable prices for their citizens.
U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz tweeted: “This is another HUGE win for @POTUS. Thanks to his leadership, the United States prevented a massive UN tax hike on American consumers that would have funded progressive climate pet projects. Our country will continue to lead the way and put America FIRST.”Secretary of State Marc Rubio echoed the same message, calling it “another HUGE win” and thanking the president’s leadership for preventing what he characterized as “a massive UN tax hike on American consumers.”This pause will push the adoption vote to the next session in October 2026, and it could risk the deal not coming into force until 2030, even if adopted in a year’s time.
Globalist climate cultists and green-grifters are hardest hit.
The World Shipping Council called it a “carefully balanced regulatory package.” Another industry lobby, the International Chamber of Shipping, backed the measure too. “We are disappointed that member states have not been able to agree a way forward at this meeting,” Thomas A. Kazakos, the International Chamber’s Secretary General said in a statement Friday after the vote. “Industry needs clarity to be able to make the investments needed to decarbonise the maritime sector.”Ralph Regenvanu, the climate minister of Vanuatu, a small Pacific island nation among the world’s most vulnerable to sea level rise, called it “unacceptable given the urgency we face in light of accelerating climate change.”
The importance of this halt can’t be over-stated. The bureaucrats didn’t expect it, and I assert that after another year of more reliable science that is actually published, more social media of sharing more rational new reports confirming that there is no climate crisis, and continued efforts by the Trump Team to protect our national interests. this deal will die completely at the next vote.
Absolutely none of the maritime experts I interviewed early this week thought the US could pull this off. Zero. Massive amounts of money, NGO influence, diplomatic threat and media manipulation were behind this… and the American media (except@gCaptain and Fox News) was dead silent.And yet Trump did it.“That Trump Truth Social post sent shockwaves through the building,” one UN delegate in London told me. “NOBODY expected it. The Secretary General @IMOSecGen looked like a deer in the headlights this morning.”
It’s beginning to dawn on many people that this framework was a move for the United Nations to collect taxes on a global scale.
This halt is one small win for the U.S., and one large win for humanity.
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