Political bickering and market complexities are stymieing attempts to regulate international shipping emissions, reports Sonja van Renssen.
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In the Policy Watch ‘Stuck on shipping’ (S. van Renssen, Nature Clim. Change 2, 767–768; 2012), Figure 1 was incorrectly credited. The caption should have read ‘Figure reproduced with permission from ref. 4 © 2011 ICCT’. This has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
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van Renssen, S. Stuck on shipping. Nature Clim Change 2, 767–768 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1723
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