In a serious blow to the Arctic and the fight to stop global heating, the UN’s International Maritime Organisation (IMO), responsible for regulating international shipping, has firmly rejected the pleas of all of those crying out for ambitious climate action.
Civil society groups have lambasted the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for failing to take action on the Arctic climate crisis, after plans to reduce black carbon emissions from shipping in the Arctic were bumped off the agenda of its Marine Environment Protection Committee meeting (MEPC 76), which ended today.
As a meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee opens today (MEPC 76), IMO member states were called on to take urgent and immediate action to protect the Arctic from the impacts of shipping emissions and pollution.
Shipping’s dirty secret: how ‘scrubbers’ clean the air – while contaminating the sea https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/12/shippings-dirty-secret-how-scrubbers-clean-the-air-while-contaminating-the-sea?CMP=share_btn_tw
“We could solve the problem of sulphur pollution by switching to cleaner fuels. But instead we’re just transferring the problem from one place to the other. And that’s really frustrating.” My take in the @guardian on shippings dirty secret – ‘scrubbers’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/12/shippings-dirty-secret-how-scrubbers-clean-the-air-while-contaminating-the-sea
Shipping’s dirty secret: how ‘scrubbers’ clean the air – while contaminating the sea https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/12/shippings-dirty-secret-how-scrubbers-clean-the-air-while-contaminating-the-sea?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1657623861
⏰ REMINDER: #AmazonPrimeDay shopping spree means more pollution from dirty container
ships overloaded with millions of tons of goods.
Container #shipping lines must take responsibility & kick-off the
transition to zero-emission energy. https://bit.ly/3PgRzgK
Cruiseship Mein Schiff4 entering Svalbard’s Isfjord. Looking at the smoke Iwonder what kind of fuel it uses #hfofreearctic
Amazon Prime Day: time to invest shipping line’s billions into climate action
@amazon & the ocean shipping lines they rely on must take responsibility for their environmental harms by ramping up their #ZeroEmission transition.
Press release here: https://www.pacificenvironment.org/press-releases/amazon-prime-day-time-to-invest-shipping-lines-billions-into-climate-action/
Pacific Environment’s Guide to IMO is a resource for anyone looking to get a crash course in what the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is and how it operates. In the guide, you will find descriptions of committees and sub-committees, section by section summaries of key IMO instruments (like the Polar Code), a list of every participating non-governmental organization with links to their websites, a glossary of common acronyms and terms, and much more. Download here.
The Clean Arctic Alliance is working for a ban on heavy fuel oil from Arctic shipping
