Posted on 10/15/2025 7:57:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Later this week the United Nations will hold a vote on a multibillion-dollar climate change tax targeted squarely at American industry. Without quick and decisive action by the White House, this U.N. tax on fossil fuels will become international law.
This resolution before the International Maritime Organization will impose a carbon tax on cargo and cruise ships that carry $20 trillion of merchandise over international waters. Roughly 80% of the bulkage of world trade is transported by ship.
The resolution is intended to advance the very “net zero” carbon emissions standard that has knee-capped European economies for years and that American voters have rejected.
This international tax that would be applied to American vessels and as such is a dangerous precedent-setting assault on U.S. sovereignty. Since when are American businesses subject to international taxes imposed by the U.N.?
The U.S maritime industry believes the global tax would cost American shippers more than $100 billion over the next seven years if enacted.
Worst of all, if the resolution passes, it will require the retirement of older ships and enable a multibillion-dollar wealth transfer to China — which has come to dominate ship building in recent years. China STRONGLY supports the tax scheme — even though, ironically, no nation has emitted more pollutants into the atmosphere than it has. Yet WE are getting socked with a tax that indirectly pays for THEIR pollution.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy have jointly stated that America “will not accept any international environmental agreement that unduly or unfairly burdens the United States or our businesses.” They call the financial impact on the U.S. of this global carbon tax “disastrous, with some estimates forecasting global shipping costs increasing
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I agree with this.
Who would get the tax money?
The UN in not a sovereign government and has no authority to levy or collect taxes.
“Climate change tax” - Payment to The Syndicate
Any woke shipping outfit will pay
“ The UN in not a sovereign government and has no authority to levy or collect taxes.”
Exactly! Who tf do these climate morons think they are? Trump isn’t going to let this stand.
And the UN doesn’t have any infantry divisions or aircraft carrier battle groups.
Who would get the tax money?
The UN is full of crooks that help themselves to whatever they want , didn’t they sell of stuff from the UN museum,LOL
Wrong! It will cost consumers $100 billion. The next question to ask is who gets the money and what will be done with it. The pat answer: It will go to climate change. Of the billions already spent on climate change, what the result? Nothing! Nada! Bupkis, other than making millions for a bunch of phony NGOs.
Where is the authority?
This is the first time that the UN has claimed the authority to tax member nations. They must think they have enough support from member nations to enforce it somehow.
I take it this is not a measure the US can veto?
I don't know; it's almost like that hillery crinton announcement about taking from US and giving it to others had a self fulfilling component built in.
Have they chosen to oppose US in favor of socialism with an UNdeclared dismantlement of the Republic?
Chart their progress from... https://www.azquotes.com/author/2997-Hillary_Clinton
Many of you are well enough off that... the tax cuts may have helped you... We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
Hillary Clinton
...to https://www.rbf.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/2013_ChartingOurProgress_2011-2013_Audited.pdf
The expanded Roadmap will include China’s power, steel, and cement sectors—three of the nation’s largest consumers of coal. In Hong Kong, Civic Exchange, a public policy think tank, led the way on a multi-sectoral initiative to reduce emissions from local ports. Dirty diesel engines in trucks, locomotives, cargo-handling equipment, and ships are at the heart of port pollution problems that affect entire airsheds. Particulate pollution from diesel engines is especially toxic, and such engines also emit large quantities of black carbon, a climate pollutant. Now, in collaboration with ADM Capital Foundation (also Hong Kong based) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC),Civic Exchange is helping to expand this clean ports initiative to the greater Pearl River Delta in Southern China. NRDC’s pioneering programs to reduce pollution at ports in Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland, California, as well as New York and New Jersey, were the inspiration for this effort.
“These are both incredibly daunting times and times of unprecedented opportunity in China,” according to Shenyu Belsky, who directs the Fund’s grantmaking program in Southern China. “What’s been most exciting to see is how China’s civil society sector has been stepping up—playing roles in policy advocacy, encouraging information disclosure, finding channels to increase public participation. The RBF is moving as quickly as possible to keep pace with the dynamism in this sector, by supporting and helping to amplify the impact of key organizations’ foresight, engagement, and initiative.”
Meanwhile, https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/03/port-communities-air-pollution-plan-los-angeles-long-beach/ apparently fell into the 'News We Can't Use' category; that is, until we learn China is once again years ahead of US. Is anyone getting suspicious yet?
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Close it down and raze the building.
Please, President Trump, get us out of that corrupt POS Organization!!
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