Joint eNGO letter to Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs the Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP
Letter to UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, The Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP regarding the importance of expanding a UK Emissions Control Area to reduce shipping’s air polluting emissions.
PPR 11: Progress Made, But IMO Fails to Act on Black Carbon Emissions, Despite Credible and Direct Pathway
As a meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response (PPR 11) closed today in London, the Clean Arctic Alliance called on the IMO to urgently adopt a mandatory regulation requiring ships to move to distillate fuels while operating in and near to the Arctic, and for the maritime sector to follow a 2021 IMO resolution above 60 degrees north. In addition, The Alliance called on the international shipping sector to now implement the new guidance agreed this week to protect the Arctic from black carbon emissions from shipping
As Greenland Rapidly Sheds Ice, IMO Must Cut Shipping’s Black Carbon Emissions
As a meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response (PPR 11) opens today in London, the Clean Arctic Alliance is calling on governments to protect the Arctic region by slashing black carbon emissions from shipping.
Followup letter to the Norway Chair of the Arctic Council, 15 February 2024
We would like to thank you and the Norwegian Chairship Team for your time in the margins of the Arctic Frontiers 2024: Actions and Reactions Conference to meet with the Clean Arctic Alliance and members from Bellona, WWF and Pacific Environment and discuss the issue of addressing black carbon emissions from shipping that impacts the Arctic.
Infographic: Why We Need to Ban Scrubbers on Ships & Why the Use of Scrubbers to Limit Air Pollution is Flawed
Why We Need to Ban Scrubbers on Ships: Discharges from exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) or scrubbers, damage the environment and pose a health risk to wildlife and people.
Bellona and Clean Arctic Alliance Meet with Arctic Council Officials on Black Carbon and Alternative Energy in the Polar Region
As new environmental priorities fill the agenda of the Arctic Council under Norway’s leadership, the Clean Arctic Alliance and one of our member organisations, Bellona, met last week with its chair, Morten Høgland, to discuss battling climate change in the earth’s most vulnerable and rapidly heating region.
February 13: Online Briefing Ahead of IMO Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response (PPR 11)
A Clean Arctic Alliance briefing ahead of the IMO’s Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response (PPR 11), taking place at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), London, 19-23 February. Learn about the environmental issues on PPR11’s agenda such as black carbon, scrubbers, HFO, sewage, plastics, and what the Clean Arctic Alliance and its members are calling for this 11th session of PPR.
MEPC 81/11/3: Identification and Protection of Special Areas, ECAs and PSSAs – Feedback on ECA proposals from Canada and Norway and related matters
This document welcomes the proposals from Canada and Norway to designate Emission Control Areas (ECAs) for nitrogen oxides, to designate and particulate matter, in Canadian Arctic waters and the Norwegian Sea, respectively. This document also highlights the need ensure the benefits of establishing ECAs are fully realized by taking urgent action to rectify the fundamental shortcomings of both regulation 13 of MARPOL Annex VI and the 2008 NOx Technical Code.
MEPC 81/6/18: Energy Efficiency of Ships: The implications of the 2023 IMO GHG Strategy and work on the basket of mid-term measures for the revision of the CII
The purpose of this document is to place the revision of the Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) in the context of the 2023 IMO GHG Strategy and the negotiation of the basket of mid-term measures, and, in particular, to ensure a clear understanding that the various short-and mid-term measures, that will be developed at the same time but in parallel, are collectively capable of delivering the highest level of climate ambition and contribute to a just and equitable transition.
MEPC 81/5/8: Regulating Black Carbon emissions from international shipping impacting the Arctic and the importance of fuel quality
This document provides additional comment and background on marine fuel quality issues to support the proposals set out in document MEPC 81/5/5 (FOEI et al.) for concrete actions to control and reduce Black Carbon emissions from ships operating in or near to the Arctic.
