Negotiation of the IMO Net-Zero Framework

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Following the 2023 strategy, the Marine Environment Protection Committee developed mid-term measures — a greenhouse gas intensity standard for marine fuels coupled to a pricing mechanism for ships exceeding it — which would constitute the first sector-wide global carbon price. The measures were approved at committee level during 2025 and their formal adoption became the subject of intense diplomatic contestation, including reported pressure from states opposed to the pricing element and a postponement of the adoption session. **This record is deliberately marked uncertain.** The author's knowledge ends before the outcome, and no source was retrievable in this session; the framework's legal status as of August 2026 is genuinely unknown here and must be established by a curator before this event is presented to a reader as settled.

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