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'If European shipping were a country, it would be the eighth-largest polluter in the bloc, pumping 139 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere in 2018 alone' (Photo: Matthew Tempest)

European shipping's dirty secret

When I travel to Brussels to the European Parliament, I never fly, for the same reason that many others choose not to - frequent flying is a disaster for the planet.

Instead, I sometimes take the ferry, from Harwich in my East of England constituency to the Hook of Holland.

Sailing out from Harwich into the North Sea at night, I can see the lights of countless huge ships heading to and from Felixstowe, the UK's largest container port, just across the bay.

Ships carrying t...

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Catherine Rowett is a UK Green MEP, and Green candidate for Norwich South in the general election.

'If European shipping were a country, it would be the eighth-largest polluter in the bloc, pumping 139 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere in 2018 alone' (Photo: Matthew Tempest)

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Catherine Rowett is a UK Green MEP, and Green candidate for Norwich South in the general election.

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