An online event organised by the Clean Arctic Alliance and WWF-Canada.
Date: Tuesday 6 December 2022
Duration 1h15
This webinar focuses on how the use of scrubbers – also known as EGCS (exhaust gas cleaning systems) – have turned global shipping’s air pollution problem into an ocean pollution problem, and why use of scrubbers may conflict with UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea).
Hear from Henn Ojaveer about advice from ICES’ (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) – the world’s oldest intergovernmental science organisation – on scrubbers, from Ida-Maja Hassellöv on the science underpinning ICES’ recommendations, and from legal expert Aldo Chirop as he explores inconsistencies between the use of exhaust gas cleaning systems and UNCLOS.
Format: Presentations followed by Q&A
Speakers:
- Sam Davin (opening remarks) – Senior Specialist, Marine Conservation & Shipping – WWF-Canada
- Aldo Chircop – Professor of Law, Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada – Pollution Substitution? Scrubbers and the Law of the Sea – download presentation
- Henn Ojaveer – ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) Advisory Committee vice-chair – ICES viewpoint on ‘Scrubber discharge water from ships – risks to the marine environment and recommendations to reduce impacts’ – download presentation
- Ida-Maja Hassellöv – Professor, Maritime Environmental Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and ICES WGSHIP chair – On scrubbers’ impact on the marine environment – download presentation
Moderated by Eelco Leemans – Clean Arctic Alliance Technical Advisor
Questions? contact [email protected]
