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Political bickering and market complexities are stymieing attempts to regulate international shipping emissions, reports Sonja van Renssen.

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Figure 1: Marginal CO2 abatement costs of key technologies; the CO2 reduction percentage of each measure is in parentheses.

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  • 13 November 2012

    In the Policy Watch ‘Stuck on shipping’ (S. van Renssen, Nature Clim. Change 2, 767–768; 2012), Figure 1 was incorrectly credited. The caption should have read ‘Figure reproduced with permission from ref. 4 © 2011 ICCT’. This has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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