Responding to today’s publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis, the Clean Arctic Alliance called on the International Maritime Organization to make immediate cuts to black carbon emissions from shipping in the Arctic, and to urgently reduce black carbon emissions globally [1].
The Alliance also called for the inclusion of a 1.5 degree-compatible 7% annual improvement in carbon intensity in the IMO’s new short-term...