Shipping produces about 3% of global emissions, just behind aviation and more than all US coal plants. But while these sectors get regularly denounced, shipping has escaped scrutiny. How did they do it?

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Read More (Links):
Ninety Percent of Everything By Rose George
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety_...

Tasked to Fight Climate Change, a Secretive U.N. Agency Does the Opposite
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/wo...

Growing climate impact
https://www.transportenvironment.org/...

Special thanks to Rose George for her inspiring reporting on the shipping industry in the book "Ninety Percent of Everything"

Reporter: Christian Caurla
Cutter: Christian Caurla
Supervising editor: Kiyo Dörrer and Joanna Gottschalk

0:00 Intro
1:10 Shipping's emissions
3:06 An invisible industry
5:03 Working conditions
5:48 Flag of convenience
7:14 Lobbying
8:40 Conclusion

DISCLAIMER: Journalists, like all humans, make mistakes too. In the video, we speak about Bangladesh and the animated arrow points to West India. We would like to apologise to our Bangladeshi and Indian followers for this mistake.