UN committee agrees to impose taxes on shipping, it’s a leap forward for One World Governance

The UN approved the first global carbon tax yesterday, which would require all ships worldwide to use a less carbon-intensive fuel mix or else pay for excess emissions from 2028. It is the start of the UN raising its own funds through taxes rather than being reliant on contributions from national governments.

Yesterday, the United Nations’ International Maritime Organisation (“IMO”) approved the first global carbon tax on shipping.  The decision, made by a committee at the United Nations’ shipping talks held at its headquarters in London yesterday, marks the first time an entire global sector will be subjected to an international carbon pricing mechanism.

“Symbolically, it marks a shift towards strong global climate governance and sets a crucial precedent for pricing emissions in other sectors, like aviation,” Emma Fenton, senior director of climate diplomacy at Opportunity Green, said.

The draft agreement is set to be formally adopted in October 2025.  If adopted, the agreement would enter into effect in 2027.

The tax mechanism includes two emissions thresholds. Ships that exceed a lower baseline will pay a $100 per tonne fee on that excess, while for emissions above a stricter threshold, the fee rises to $380 per tonne. Revenue from this tax is estimated at $30-40 billion by 2030.

The UN’s new fuel standard for ships and a global pricing mechanism for emissions (i.e., a tax) “will become mandatory for large ocean-going ships over 5,000 gross tonnage, which emit 85% of the total CO₂ emissions from international shipping,” IMO said in a press release. 

The tax requires ships to use a less carbon-intensive fuel mix or pay for excess emissions. The measure aims to reduce shipping emissions to net zero by 2050, addressing the sector’s contribution of around 3% of total global emissions.  However, by the climate change cult’s own dubious rationale, the UN’s scheme will not ensure sufficient emissions reductions and so is ineffective.   

“The mechanism is expected to deliver just an 8 per cent reduction in absolute emissions by 2030,” the Independent reported.  “Well below the IMO’s own target of 20 per cent.”  

So, if it is ineffective even by climate alarmists’ estimation, what is this shipping tax really about?

Below is an IMO propaganda video selling their “green shipping revolution.” It was published a week before the 83rd session of the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee was held, the meeting where the global shipping tax was “approved.”  It demonstrates why they are targeting shipping – because the vast majority of global trade happens via maritime shipping.  Our everyday essentials rely on shipping, IMO states in the video, “from the food on our tables to the phones in our hands.”  

While shipping companies may hand over the tax to the UN, the cost of IMO’s tax will be passed onto consumers.  In other words, ultimately, it is a tax that we will pay – to the UN, not our national governments – on many of the everyday goods we buy. 

It is, as Alex Newman explained in a recent article, a tax imposed on us by the UN so unelected UN officials can move closer to usurping national governments and operating as a One World Government.

The effort by the IMO to impose a “carbon tax” on maritime shipping is raising alarm among critics for several reasons. The most significant concern, though, is that the unprecedented tax would allow the UN to raise money on its own, liberating it from dependence on its member governments for funding. That would dramatically transform the nature of the UN and what is euphemistically known as “global governance,” almost certainly forever.

While the amount may be small to start with … it will establish a clear precedent for allowing the UN to start collecting tax funds from other sources as well. The tax could also easily be increased once the proverbial camel’s nose of global taxation is under the tent.

Historically, the UN’s inability to impose taxes has served as one of the most powerful restraints on its power. Once it has direct access to money without being forced to beg its member governments, it can fund “peace” armies, police, courts, bureaucracy, social-engineering, propaganda and more, essentially without limit.

With the unlimited resources that global taxes would bring, that process of usurping more and more power, together with the ability to enforce its will, would be supercharged like never before.

UN Shipping Tax to Fuel Global Tyranny, Alex Newman, 7 April 2025

The United States did not participate in the negotiations, with the Trump administration rejecting efforts to impose economic measures based on fuel choice and threatening reciprocal measures if fees are charged. In addition to push back from the United States, Saudi Arabia and Russia also opposed the measure.

“The global tax scheme is backed by major powers, including historic US allies such as the far-left UK government of Keir Starmer, Japanese and South Korean authorities, and even the European Union. It is also being pushed hard by governments in the Pacific region and the Caribbean,” Alex Newman noted.

On Friday, 63 countries voted in favour of the global shipping tax, 16 voted against it and 25 abstained.  Many of the small island nations that helped push for the agreement in the first place abstained.  “They were sidelined in key discussions and expressed alarm over the final shape of the deal – particularly the lack of guaranteed support for a just and equitable transition,” the Independent said.

The “just and equitable transition” refers to funds that these countries are seeking from the UN.  What these funds would ultimately be used for by recipient governments is anyone’s guess, but the bottom line is, it’s a mechanism to transfer money from taxpayers in one country to the governments, and/or their cronies, of others.

Whenever we see the word “equity” or “equitable” used, it is an immediate indication that the basis of the argument is far-left ideology and part of the Globalists’ agenda.  It is one of the three concepts embedded in the nefarious diversity, equity and inclusion (“DEI”) agenda. 

DEI is Marxist ideology.  It was a programme used by tyrants Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin and later prepackaged for use in the West.

DEI, particularly the “equity” and “inclusion” aspects, has been brandished about as mantras by both the UN and the World Economic Forum, as well as various non-profit organisations, activist groups and government officials.

Equity is not equality.  In fact, “equity” and “equality” are so fundamentally different that the two concepts could not be more opposed. In equity doctrine, there will be those who will benefit but not because they are deserving or in need; and, there will be those who are punished but not because they have committed a crime.  Benefits and punishments will be determined by the equity rule makers.  Equity will not only destroy the people it uses as an excuse to claim it is benevolent – it will destroy all of us and our societies. 

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Featured image taken from ‘International Maritime Organisation (IMO)’, Dan-Bunkering, 5 September 2024