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Ice lead, Dijmhna Sund, Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, Greenland. Copyright Dave Walsh 2009 davewalshphoto.com

Low Hanging Fruit: Reducing Shipping’s Black Carbon Emissions This Decade

28 June 2023 / ,
Increasing Arctic shipping brings increasing risks and threats – with emissions of black carbon and of greenhouse gases from vessels contributing to the climate crisis. Yet, this threat can be greatly reduced. The shipping sector has the power to quickly reduce emissions of black carbon.
Verner Wilson III (Left) at the International Maritime Organization in London with IMO Secretary General Kitack Lim (Centre) and Lisa Koperqualuk, President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, Canada.

In Celebration of the Life of Verner Wilson III

21 April 2023 / ,
It is with profound sadness that we remember and celebrate the life of Verner Wilson III. Verner passed away unexpectedly, aged 36, on Thursday 23rd March, in his home town of Dillingham, Alaska. 
Sea ice in the Arctic, photograph by Dave Walsh davewalshphoto.com

A Clear Pathway for Achieving Arctic Green Shipping Corridors

26 August 2022 / ,
In May, Nordic climate and environment ministers signed an agreement to establish green corridors for emission-free shipping between ports in the Nordic Region. By cleaning up shipping in the region, this ambitious and progressive move has the potential to protect our air, our climate, our marine environment and the health of millions of people. This is why the Clean Arctic Alliance, made up of 20 international non-for-profit organisations, has now written to the ministers from Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands to propose a number of domestic and international actions which would help to rapidly kick-start the establishment
Arctic Climate Crisis: Black Carbon Emissions

Why Governments Must Cut Shipping’s Black Carbon Emissions to Save the Arctic

22 March 2022 / ,
When PPR 9 meets this April, it must agree on ambitious and urgent global action to dramatically reduce ship-source black carbon emissions this decade, mitigating the impact of black carbon on the Arctic, and helping slow the impact of the climate crisis on the Arctic. But this isn’t a job just for the IMO; individual states and regions must respond to the IMO’s encouragement by taking immediate action of their own to cut ship black carbon emissions.
Video Q&A: Why the EU's Fit for 55 Package of Climate Regulations Must Include Black Carbon from Ships

Video Q&A: Why the EU’s Fit for 55 Package of Climate Regulations Must Include Black Carbon from Ships

16 March 2022 / , , , ,
The follow Q&A videos, presented by the Clean Arctic Alliance team considers how the EU’s Fit for 55 package can address black carbon and deliver a double-whammy by delivering the commitments in the new Communication and the IMO’s black carbon Resolution within the “brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future” referred to in the latest IPCC AR6 report.
Why Arctic ministers must go further than the IMO’s weak heavy fuel oil ban

Why Arctic ministers must go further than the IMO’s weak heavy fuel oil ban

20 May 2021 / ,
The Arctic Council Ministerial provides a unique opportunity for foreign ministers to demonstrate global leadership by committing to rapid, Arctic-wide elimination of heavy fuel oil, and to immediate reduction in black carbon emissions from shipping. These commitments can be enshrined in the 2021 Reykjavik Declaration, to be issued at the conclusion of the meeting.
Infographic: Heavy Fuel Oil Spills - Case Studies of a Global Problem

Why Arctic Countries Must Go Further Than the IMO’s Weak Arctic Heavy Fuel Oil Ban

19 March 2021 / ,
The IMO is on the cusp of missing a crucial opportunity to protect the Arctic - it has a last chance this June when the Arctic HFO ban is due to be adopted. IMO member states - particularly the Arctic nations - must stand up for the Arctic and its people and its wildlife by taking action to strengthen the Arctic HFO ban ahead of its adoption, and bring it into effect sooner than 2029.
Climate Home News: How the shipping industry can halve climate-warming black carbon in the Arctic

How the IMO and Shipping Industry Can Halve Climate Warming Black Carbon in the Arctic

19 March 2021 / ,
The Clean Arctic Alliance believes that by mandating a switch of fuels, the IMO - and the shipping sector could win an easy victory by achieving a major cut of black carbon emissions in the Arctic. It would also be a win for the global climate, for the Arctic and the people who depend on its ecosystem for their livelihoods.
Infographic: The IMO Draft Arctic Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) Regulation: A Ban In Name Only?

Why the IMO’s draft Arctic HFO regulation will not protect the Arctic, and how to fix it

13 November 2020 / , ,
Dr Sian Prior on the problems with the International Maritime Organization's ban on heavy fuel oil in the Arctic - and how it can be rectified.
Protest outside PPR7, IMO, Photo DJ Tyson, Pacific Environment

Needed Now, More Than Ever: The Arctic Ban On Heavy Fuel Oil

19 May 2020 / ,
It will be bad news for the Arctic and for Arctic communities if the volume of shipping increases in the coming decade before environmental protections including a ban on the use and carriage of HFO take effect. 
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