Report To The Marine Environment Protection Committee PPR 7/22/Add.1, 24 April 2020. Annexes 1 to 22 to the report of the Sub-Commmittee on Pollution Prevention and Response on its seventh session (PPR 7/22).
Submitted by to PPR7/8 by FOEI, WWF, Pacific Environment and CSC. This document discusses the implications for the Arctic of a recent study indicating that blended low sulphur residual fuels that have been developed to meet the IMO 2020 requirement will result in a significant increases in Black Carbon emissions, and calls on the IMO to mandate an urgent switch to distillates for ships operating in the Arctic to avoid a sharp rise in emissions of short-lived climate forcers in this vulnerable area.Download document (pdf): PPR 7/8/3: The need for an urgent switch to distillates for ships operating in the Arctic
New blended low sulphur fuels designed to meet IMO 2020 0.50% global sulphur limit will result in significant increases in ships’ Black Carbon emissions.
This document sets out the views of the co-sponsors on document PPR 7/14/4, “Draft language for a ban of use and carriage of heavy fuel oil as fuel by ships in Arctic waters”. The co-sponsors support the process outlined in document PPR 7/14/4 but do not agree that delays or exemptions to a ban are necessary.
This document contains proposed draft amendments to MARPOL Annex I and the Polar Code to incorporate a ban on the use and carriage for use as fuel of heavy fuel oil (HFO) by ships in Arctic waters. This Arctic ban would not apply to the carriage of HFO as cargo.
This document summarizes the findings of an analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) titled Arctic heavy fuel oil ban: Fuel and voyage cost effects on bulk carriers used in Canadian Arctic mining operations. A key finding being that if ships do not use exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS), the fuel and voyage cost impacts of an Arctic HFO ban are expected to be negligible.
Paper on observed physical changes in the Arctic, observed impacts on people and ecosystem services, changes to Arctic transportation and tourism and the environmental consequences of increased Arctic transportation and tourism.
This document describes Arctic Indigenous support for the ban on the use and carriage of heavy fuel oil as fuel by ships operating in the Arctic. It is a compilation of interventions delivered by Indigenous leaders at IMO and resolutions passed by Arctic Indigenous communities and organizations.
This document presents results of a measurement campaign for the analysis of the impact of fuel oil quality on Black Carbon emissions. The results clearly indicate that new blends of marine fuels with 0.50% sulphur content can contain a large percentage of aromatic compounds, which have a direct impact on Black Carbon emissions.