Black Trail is an agenda-setting collaborative investigation into the environmental impacts of the shipping industry — a sector that is all but untouchable as it receives eye-watering subsidies and stashes its profits in tax havens, all the while polluting with impunity.
IMO Environment Protection Committee Approves Amendments To Cut Ship Emissions
Draft new mandatory regulations to cut the carbon intensity of existing ships have been approved by the IMO MEPC, meeting in virtual session from 16-20 November 2020.
Industry Cannot Ignore Any Area Of Operational Fuel Wastage To Meet Emissions Targets
With IMO announcing a goals-based approach to emissions reductions for sulphur, nitrogen and carbon oxides over the next two decades, shipping owners and operators must use vessel data to build a fuller picture of unnecessary fuel consumption.
Arctic Sea Shipping: Emissions Matter More Than You Might Think
Not so long ago, explorers risked their lives and the lives of their crews in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. Now the question is no longer if a route through the Arctic exists but how many ships will use the two routes now open each year along the northern coasts of Canada and Russia.
Experts Say Shipping Emissions Must Peak Soon to Achieve Paris Goals
International shipping and aviation will have to cap their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) soon for the world to meet the ambitious goals laid down in the Paris Climate Change Agreement, participants at a side event at the Bonn climate change conference heard today.
China To Introduce Tough Emissions Controls For Ships
China will introduce tough controls on ship emissions at three key port areas from January to reduce sulphur dioxide which results in acid rain, causing respiratory difficulties and sometimes premature death, said the Ministry of Transport.