Shipping’s Arctic Black Carbon Problem is Growing Faster Than Regulators Can Respond

There is a particular kind of institutional irony that only the International Maritime Organization can produce with quite such reliable consistency.

By Paul Morgan (gCaptain) – In London at the end of April, MEPC 84 closed after five days of negotiations with cautious optimism all round. The Net Zero Framework, agreed in principle at MEPC 83 a year ago, is back on track. The pendulum, as the analysts at University College London noted with evident relief, has swung. The next extraordinary session is pencilled in for December. Progress is being made.

Meanwhile, in the Arctic, things are burning rather faster than