Climate Home: An initial plan from the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is expected to be released by 2018, which will feed into a UN-led assessment of global climate policies.
But under proposals submitted in London this week, governments will only finalise the strategy after a three year project to capture ship-level fuel use data, which starts in 2019.
The compromise deal emerged after negotiations that ran to 01.30am on Friday between 45 countries including the US, China, Brazil, India, UK, Panama and the Marshall Islands.
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