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NEIacademy.org. This week, a group of countries may approve what's widely seen as the first

carbon tax on the global shipping industry. The International Maritime Organization is poised to approve

new levies on ships for their emissions.

Payments would become mandatory near the end of the decade and are designed to get companies

to cut back emissions substantially by mid-century.

But the Trump administration argues it's a harmful tax and is threatening tariffs.

William Brigham has a look now at a key business player who's attracting attention

for his efforts to make that industry and others greener.

Sailing into New York Harbor, it may look unremarkable, but the green pioneer is a ship with a difference.

It's the first cargo ship partially powered by green ammonia, a carbon-free fuel that some say

could help decarbonize the notoriously dirty global shipping industry.

That industry's traffic makes up 3% of all greenhouse gas emissions, which is more than

double the pollution of France or England.

We can get sun, wind, water, or you get to make a money.

That's it.

This vessel is Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest is the force behind the green pioneer,

and he is a surprising climate activist.

Forrest runs Fortescue, one of the world's largest iron ore mining companies.

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