The ODT has an excellent if lengthy piece on the cruise ship industry in times of climate crisis.
The Climate Change Commission is now consulting on whether emissions from international shipping & aviation should be included in NZ's carbon cutting goals out to 2050.
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Every year, more than 20 million passengers take a cruise.
Before the pandemic, that number was even higher sitting at around 30 million.
Many European ports where these ships drop anchor are re-evaluating their presence. Some are looking to ban them altogether, citing environmental, social and economic concerns.
Which European cities are trying to cut back the number of cruise ship visits?
Today’s cruise ships are several times as big as the Titanic
Cruise ships are freaking big. They’re the biggest passenger vessels humans have ever built. In size and appearance, they look nothing like almost any other boat. So how did they get that way?
The predecessor of today’s cruise ships was the ocean liner: big, beautiful ships that sailed across the Atlantic.
Amsterdam's city council has decided to close a major cruise ship terminal in its centre in the latest measure to limit mass tourism in the Dutch capital.
"Polluting cruise ships are not in line with the sustainable ambitions of our city," said a statement from centre-right party D66, which runs the city with the social democrats PvdA and GroenLinks environmentalists.
#Amsterdam banning #CruiseShips from the locality is a very good start, now lets apply that same rigour to the entire planet and get these destructive seaborne disease cannnisters gone completely, or at the very least, gone until they figure out how to operate them without causing colossal damage to the environment.
Citing ProPublica’s reporting, lawmakers on Thursday reintroduced a bill that would ban the use of #asbestos in the United States, bringing it in line with dozens of countries that have outlawed the carcinogenic substance.