COP27 Side Event: Low Hanging Fruit – Reducing Shipping Black Carbon Emissions This Decade

COP27 Side Event: Low Hanging Fruit - Reducing Shipping Black Carbon Emissions This Decade

 

Venue: COP27 Cryosphere Pavilion & livestreamed
Time & Date: Thursday 10th November @16.00 (EET) – 15:00 (CET) – 14.00 (UK)

This event will respond to the urgency, conveyed by the latest IPCC reports, to reduce emissions of short-lived climate forcers such as black carbon, along with greenhouse gases, by focusing on the shipping sector. It will consider the perspective of Indigenous communities and communities from low-lying island States. It will set out options and proposed immediate actions which would kick-start reductions in ships’ emissions that impact the Arctic.

Speakers: 

Moderator: Pam Pearson, International Cryosphere Climate Initiative

Dr Robbie Mallett, University College London, on climate science – in-person

Lisa Koperqualuk, Inuit Circumpolar Council on Indigenous perspectives – in-person

John Kautoke, Kingdom of Tonga Embassy to the UK, on South Pacific Island perspectives – virtual

Madeleine Rose, Pacific Environment – in-person

Dr Sian Prior, Clean Arctic Alliance – confirmed – virtual

Livestream:

The event will be livestreamed to the following platforms, and also available for viewing later.

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