The Clean Arctic Alliance has called the IMO to support an immediate switch to distillate fuels for ships in the Arctic and develop a global rule prohibiting fuels with high Black Carbon emissions. The call comes in response to a recent study revealing that some of the new blended low sulphur shipping fuels developed and marketed by oil companies to comply with IMO 2020 air pollution standards will actually lead to a surge in the emissions of Black Carbon.
If immediate action isn’t taken by the...
https://safety4sea.com/imo-urged-to-act-after-findings-on-vlsfo-black-carbon-emissions/