Oil companies must explain how their new “Super Pollutant” shipping fuels ever came to market

Exhaust emissions from Marine Diesel - Photo: Jonathan Eastland/Ajax/Alamy

Responding to the discovery that some of the new blended low sulphur shipping fuels developed and marketed by oil companies to comply with IMO 2020 air pollution standards will actually lead to a surge in the emissions of a Super Pollutant known as Black Carbon, the Clean Arctic Alliance is calling for the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to support an immediate switch to distillate fuels for ships in the Arctic and develop a global rule prohibiting fuels with high Black Carbon emissions