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Shipping is tough on the climate and hard to clean up – these innovations can help cut emissions

  • Written by Jing Sun, Professor and Department Chair, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan
Shipping is tough on the climate and hard to clean up – these innovations can help cut emissionsShipping is responsible for a large portion of global emissions.William William/Unsplash, CC BY

Ships carry more than 80% of world trade, and they rely heavily on some of the least environmentally friendly transportation fuels available.

There are no cheap, widely available solutions that can lower the shipping industry’s planet-warming...

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