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Webinar: Polar Fuels – From Concept to Solution: Reducing Black Carbon Emissions from Arctic Shipping Date: Thursday, 2 October 2025 Time: Two time slots: 09:00 CEST / 19:00 SGT https://lnkd.in/dJ68-sJ6 12:00 EDT / 18:00 CEST https://lnkd.in/dSZe-mJf Length: 60 minutes Join this Clean Arctic Alliance webinar to find out more about the characteristics of polar fuels, and how an International Maritime Organization measure aimed at reducing emissions will help to reduce shipping’s impact on the Arctic, during next February's Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response - PPR 13. The webinar will provide an industry perspective, touch on polar fuel characteristics, the geographic scope of possible measures for Arctic states and IMO to reduce black carbon and its impacts on the Arctic. To follow: We will soon share our speaker list, which will include experts on polar science, shipping fuels, the shipping industry, Indigenous perspective and Arctic national policies. Sian Prior Eelco Leemans Andrew Dumbrille Bill Hemmings Clean Air Fund

We’re just about to start - join us live! Tune in to the Bellona Environmental Transparency Center’s webinar: The Northern Sea Route – Russia’s industrial and political expansion, it’s environmental costs, and Arctic shipping risks. Watch the stream here: https://lnkd.in/dkjK6uWu Feel free to submit your questions—we will share them with the speakers and address them during the Q&A session.

Via Martina Sapio at POLITICO Europe: A Chinese company is preparing to sail a cargo ship along Russia's northern coast to Europe— a test run made possible by melting ice and accelerating climate change, and one that has implications for both international trade and the environment. ... But the opportunity comes with heavy risk. The Arctic is warming three to four times faster than the rest of the planet. Less ice may make passage easier, but it also magnifies the damage when things go wrong. Black carbon from bunker fuels is especially destructive when released near snow and ice. “It does five times the damage there than if it’s emitted farther away,” said Andrew Dumbrille, adviser to the Clean Arctic Alliance. Add the reality that spill response in the Arctic is slow and limited, and the stakes rise sharply. “Once oil is in the water, every hour without response means huge damage," he said. And the vessel making this pioneering run hardly inspires confidence. The Istanbul Bridge — a 25-year-old, Liberian-flagged container ship — is not ice-strengthened, Dumbrille noted. “There will be an escort around it, but still, it’s not strengthened. It also will likely use heavy fuel oil on its journey, or bunker fuels.” https://lnkd.in/dkjvh77K Equal Routes Sian Prior Eelco Leemans Bill Hemmings Malte Humpert Clean Air Fund

Via Martina Sapio at POLITICO Europe: A Chinese company is preparing to sail a cargo ship along Russia's northern coast to Europe— a test run made possible by melting ice and accelerating climate change, and one that has implications for both international trade and the environment. ... But the opportunity comes with heavy risk. The Arctic is warming three to four times faster than the rest of the planet. Less ice may make passage easier, but it also magnifies the damage when things go wrong. Black carbon from bunker fuels is especially destructive when released near snow and ice. “It does five times the damage there than if it’s emitted farther away,” said Andrew Dumbrille, adviser to the Clean Arctic Alliance. Add the reality that spill response in the Arctic is slow and limited, and the stakes rise sharply. “Once oil is in the water, every hour without response means huge damage," he said. And the vessel making this pioneering run hardly inspires confidence. The Istanbul Bridge — a 25-year-old, Liberian-flagged container ship — is not ice-strengthened, Dumbrille noted. “There will be an escort around it, but still, it’s not strengthened. It also will likely use heavy fuel oil on its journey, or bunker fuels.” https://lnkd.in/dkjvh77K Equal Routes Sian Prior Eelco Leemans Bill Hemmings Malte Humpert Clean Air Fund

Join us on September 18 at 11:00 (GMT+3) for our webinar in Zoom featuring The Bellona Environmental Transparency Center's arctic advisors to present The Northern Sea Route: Russia’s industrial and political expansion, its environmental costs, and Arctic shipping risks report. We summarize the publicly available information about the NSR and assess the environmental and political risks of increased shipping. To participate in the online event, ask questions or just watch the stream on YouTube, please fill the following form: https://lnkd.in/dfWA_btM Russia’s plans for developing Arctic territories and the Northern Sea Route were on the upswing even before the start of the full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, and they have not abated during the three years of war and international sanctions. International economic sanctions targeting liquefied natural gas projects, as well as oil and mineral resource extraction in Russia’s Arctic zone, have significantly slowed down the development of the continental shelf and the industrial growth of the Arctic coast, but have not completely halted these efforts. Under these conditions, environmental and climate concerns receive scant attention, sharply increasing the risk of accidents with serious environmental consequences and inadequate or delayed response efforts. The lack of transparency regarding negative environmental impacts and the emergence of a shadow fleet of oil tankers are clear indicators of this problem. Our new report is available on etc.bellona.org and aimed at policymakers, advisors, officials, NGO staff, researchers, and journalists who are concerned with the Arctic situation and its challenges.

Arctic sea ice failed to reach a record low during the summer melt-out this year, but for U.S. scientists, 2025 was still unprecedented. It's the first time in nearly 40 years that they have had to rely on instruments aboard a Japanese satellite to make the call, after the U.S. Department of Defense stopped full support for downloading sea ice data from the satellite system. My latest for Mongabay looking at how this year fits into a decades-long pattern of sea ice loss slowdown and the switch to Japanese data. https://lnkd.in/gkkAuWym

Excellent article by Gloria Dickie on the slow down in Arctic sea ice melt. Don’t be fooled - Arctic sea ice has retreated massively, opening up the Arctic to increased shipping. The urgency to reduce black carbon emissions from ships which have a disproportionate impact on Arctic ice remains high. Clean Arctic Alliance Inga Thordar Carolina Manhusen

Cruise ships polluting Alaska waters withs scrubber wastewater https://lnkd.in/eTs_ukvR

🚨 JOINT PRESS RELEASE 🚨 Mark Carney’s push to double LNG Canada as a “nation-building” project ignores the right of Indigenous peoples to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) and asks taxpayers to underwrite a project with no clear business case. “Canada is once again forcing projects through that relegate Indigenous communities, lands, and waters to the sacrifice zones of oil and gas expansion. Mark Carney advertises LNG as “nation-building” despite foreign entities privatizing the benefits of a dying industry, while leaving Canadians to bear the brunt of the bill. In this new era of ‘economic reconciliation,’ oil and gas officials seek to reduce our presence to stakeholders in industry, and not as the true rightsholders to the land where these projects are taking place and benefit from. This is not nation-building, but rather an attempt to destabilize Indigenous sovereignty by making our communities agents of industry.” - Willo Prince, Campaign Manager, Indigenous Climate Action Read more about it on our website: https://lnkd.in/gvSTWZ3T Joint press release with Greenpeace Canada, Stand.earth , Climate Action Network Canada , Change Course , Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC), Gidimt'en Checkpoint, Investors For Paris Compliance, Pension Wealth & Planet Health, Canadian Association Of Physicians For The Environment (CAPE BC), Georgia Strait Alliance, Equal Routes, For Our Kids