Tag: environmental protection

On March 13th, Joe Biden, president of U.S.A., gave approval for Willow Master Development Plan, oil drilling project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), after significantly reducing its size. 

While several landmark agreements have been put into force over the years to minimize the impact of shipping activity to the natural environment, the vast presence of shipping makes some of these impacts hard to eliminate. Shipping traffic has increased 300% in the past two decades, with some of the world’s busiest shipping routes overlapping with marine life habitats, according to WWF. What does this mean for marine ecosystems?

The "Last Beach Clean Up" and "Beyond Plastics" released a report documenting a recycling rate of 5 to 6% for post-consumer plastic waste in the U.S. for 2021.

An international group of scientists and experts call for a limit on plastic production to address pollution, arguing that it is critical to tackle the issue right at the source, by regulating, capping, and in the long term phasing out the production of new plastics.

During the "Our Ocean Conference" (OOC) in Palau, the EU renewed its pledges towards international Ocean governance, by presenting a list of 44 commitments for the 2020-2022 period for an amount of almost €1 billion.

CMA CGM, a French container transportation and shipping company, announced its decision to stop carrying plastic waste on its ship as of June 1st, 2022.

The Head of legal affairs, shipping policy & security, Royal Belgian Shipowners’ Association, Antwerp – Belgium, Elle De Soomer, presents in a paper the critical stance with respect to the (potential) effectiveness of the EU Directive 2004/35/CE on Environmental Liability regarding environmental damage from shipping accidents.

Decarbonization has recently become a hot topic of discussion in the shipping community, notes Capt. Zhaoqingwei, Marine Safety Manager at DASIN SHIPPING PTE LTD and highlights that protecting the marine environment is not just about buzzwords like GHG, EEXI, IHM, LSFO, EU-MRV, etc.

The government of Portugal expanded a marine protected area around the Selvagens Islands, creating the largest fully protected marine reserve in Europe at 2,677 square kilometers.

Lloyd's Register (LR) welcomes the new initiative launched by Verra "Plastic Stewardship Initiative announcement" which aims to build a zero-waste future. The Plastic Standard, developed and managed by Verra, helps companies that have fully maximized efforts to reduce the plastic footprint of their operations to invest in projects that collect and recycle plastic waste.