Two UN agencies are making plans to tax shipping and aviation, globally, for their greenhouse gas emissions. If successful, the UN’s carbon taxes would add to inflation worldwide and consolidate shipping and aviation into fewer, larger companies.
We should remind ourselves that the UN is a non-governmental organisation run by a handful, relatively, of unelected people who have no authority to tax citizens or companies in democratic countries.
“A cornerstone of democracy is that citizens decide who taxes them. Magna Carta enshrined the principle of consent for taxation; and the American Revolution rallied around the slogan ‘No taxation without representation’,” The Telegraph noted. “The UN’s plan to levy taxes on global trade is a sinister power grab.”
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The International Maritime Organisation (“IMO”), an agency of the United Nations (“UN”), is finalising a draft “regulation” for a universal levy or tax on greenhouse gas emissions. A formal vote is scheduled for October 2026 and implementation in 2027.
Called the IMO Net-zero Framework, they are amendments to MARPOL Annex VI, the primary international “regulation” under the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, adopted in 1997 and entered into force in May 2005.
The Framework was approved by the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (“MEPC”) in April 2025. It was set to be formally adopted at a specially convened MEPC meeting in October 2025, but the decision was delayed to a MEPC meeting in October 2026.
The MEPC is a specialised body within the IMO. In other words, it is a group of unnamed, unknown people taking directions from other unnamed, unknown people about a draft that has not been distributed to taxpayers worldwide for their consideration. For all we know, it is the same small group of people who drafted, approved and are seeking to adopt the text.
To access the draft, the IMO insists the public create an account: “To access the IMO Net-Zero Framework approved draft regulations and all documents for MEPC Extraordinary Session 2, please visit IMODOCS and create your free account,” it says.
If you choose to create an account, no doubt the UN will be glad to add your details to their centralised database to do who knows what with. To save our readers the risk of handing their personal details over to the UN, we have provided a link to a copy of the 121-page draft. We found this link at the bottom of Wikipedia’s page, it may or may not be the latest draft:’ Draft revised MARPOL Annex VI’ (11 April 2025).
“Once adopted, under the tacit acceptance procedure, the regulations are expected to enter into force 16 months later at which point governments will be responsible for enforcing them,” the IMO says. It sounds like the IMO needs to go back to school and learn about the differences between democracy and autocracy.
So, what has the IMO drafted and approved for adoption at its meeting later this year?
Below, Centrist has summarised The Telegraph’s article, as quoted in the summary at the beginning of this article, which is raising the alarm about the IMO’s proposed global tax contained in the Net-zero Framework.
UN Climate Levies on Shipping and Aviation Raise Taxation Without Representation Concerns
Summarised by Centrist
Two United Nations agencies are moving toward emissions charges on global shipping and aviation, prompting warnings that unelected international bodies are gaining tax-like powers over major sectors of the world economy.
Writing in The Telegraph, energy policy scholar Brenda Shaffer argues that the International Maritime Organisation (“IMO”) and International Civil Aviation Organisation (“ICAO”) are seeking to impose costs on shipping and air travel without democratic accountability.
The IMO’s proposed Net-Zero Framework includes a global fuel standard and greenhouse gas emissions pricing mechanism for shipping.
Its adoption was delayed in 2025, with talks due to resume in 2026.
Shaffer argues the measure would increase costs across global trade while doing little to cut emissions because low-carbon shipping fuels remain expensive, limited and difficult to scale.
Shipping carries more than 80% of global trade and accounts for about 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Aviation faces similar pressure through ICAO’s carbon offsetting scheme for international flights.
Supporters say such measures are needed to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors and create incentives for cleaner fuels.
Critics say the costs will be passed on to consumers, favour large operators over smaller competitors and create a precedent for international institutions to raise revenue from economic activity without direct voter consent.
Shaffer says the question is not only about climate change, but about democratic control over taxation.
“If these precedents stand, the appetite of unelected institutions for fiscal power will only grow,” she wrote.
Centrist editor’s note: The UN does not appear to be able to directly tax companies in the way a national government can. The more realistic mechanism is indirect: agencies such as the IMO and ICAO set international rules, which are then enforced through member states, port access, aviation compliance systems and industry obligations.
That distinction matters. If these measures are merely voluntary guidance or encouragement to buy offsets, that is familiar UN climate bureaucracy.
But if emissions charges or offset purchases become binding conditions for ships, airlines or international routes, the practical effect may still be tax-like. The cost would be embedded in freight, fares and consumer prices, despite voters having no direct say over the charge.
The question, then, is not only whether this is technically a “tax.” It is whether unelected international bodies are creating compulsory costs that national democracies merely administer.
Read more over at The Telegraph.
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Yet more blatant tax fraud.
Time that people stand up to governments and demand abolishment of the globalists.
Should withdraw from UN just exactly like Trump did to the WHO who participated in and continues to participate in the whole WUHAN Coverup for FAUCI, BARIC, DASZAC, HUNTER, …….. Go to medical veritas.org for the logistical/money relationships. NO ONE has posted the truth re the actual “DIRECTED EVOLUTION” OR THE “GENE THERAPY” JABS (never call them vaccines, they are not and never were even intended to be) except me. Masters in Human Molecular Genetics. This was, is, and always will be our BIOWEAPON.
Want the TRUTH? Just ask.
Tax payers want a huge tax return for all the climate scam and fraud their tax money has been spent on
Everybody who currently runs the governing institutions, (not only the governments), of the world was selected by those who rule the world, either by appointment or by rigged party nominations and elections. The republican model of government, in which the people elect representatives and the representatives appoint their allies to carry out their intentions, has failed because the people have lost control of their choices and their votes. Too many of them can be bought, and technology can control those who can’t be bought.
Every institution that receives tax money and misspends it on itself or its friends or does harm with it is an example, from the UN and the EU and NATO to parliaments, police forces, schools, and churches.
The bad guys have gradually taken over and are blatantly bleeding us dry. The woke refuse to believe it, and the rest of us haven’t yet mustered to courage or developed the strategy to correct the situation.
These are the same people spraying the skies with deadly toxins without permission. The same people using weather modification to wipe out regions, cripple nations and food production.
I’m not going to pay for a non representative of my country, get out of the U.N. and get them out of NY.