Tag: black carbon

As a meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (IMO, MEPC 81) gets underway, the Clean Arctic Alliance urged IMO member states to agree to creation of new areas in the Arctic which will be protected from polluting air emissions from shipping.

The Clean Arctic Alliance has urged the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to adopt a mandatory regulation mandating the use of distillate fuels by ships operating in and near the Arctic.

In a recent open letter to the Arctic Council, Bellona and the Alliance requested that a concrete zero-emissions policy be established for Arctic shipping, and that all Arctic nations implement the IMO resolution that urges the use of distillate or cleaner alternative fuels in or near the Arctic on a voluntary basis.

Green Instruments A/S and Danish Technological Institute have collaboratively developed a real-time flue gas sensor technology for accurate measurement of black carbon emissions from ships.

In a letter to Morten Høglund, the Chair of the Senior Arctic Officials of the Arctic Council, on 12th December, the Clean Arctic Alliance and its member organisation, Norway-based Bellona, called on the Arctic Council to take action to reduce black carbon and greenhouse gas emissions from shipping in the Arctic.

Recently, Russia has been actively engaged in identifying other pathways to circumvent its reliance on the Black Sea and evade the impact of sanctions. Consequently, Russia is increasingly shifting its focus towards the use of the Northern Sea Route (NSR).

As the International Maritime Organization (IMO) gathers today for a meeting of its Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 80, July 3-7), the Clean Arctic Alliance called on IMO member states to adopt ambitious interim targets that will lead to a 50% reduction in shipping’s climate impact by 2030.

The Clean Arctic Alliance yesterday called on the IMO to radically reduce the impact of black carbon emissions from shipping on Arctic sea and glacier ice, by putting in place a compulsory requirement for ships across the whole Arctic to use cleaner fuels, by switching to distillate fuels.

Following MEPC79 outcome, the Clean Arctic Alliance welcomed progress to reduce the impact of GHGs and black carbon emissions from shipping on the Arctic, but called on IMO member states to act decisively to regulate black carbon emissions.

If Black Carbon was covered under “Fit for 55,” it could help reduce BC emissions from ships that call on EU ports, including those that sail the Arctic, suggest Dr. Liudmila Osipova and Dr. Bryan Comer, ICCT.