Recovering activity amid booming rates has caused Clarksons Research to up its estimate of shipping's CO2 emissions this year.

The research division of UK shipbroker Clarksons believes carbon output may "edge up slightly" to around 840m tonnes or 2.4% of global emissions in 2021.

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This is up from the company's estimate for 2020 of 810m tonnes.