15 Nov 2024
Eight countries—the Faroe Islands, France, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom—would have their territorial waters and exclusive economic zones included in the planned North Atlantic Emission Control Area (AtlECA), according to the ICCT press release.
More than 190 million people live in this region, with special attention paid to vulnerable groups like the Greenlandic Inuit, who make up 90% of Greenland's population and mostly live around the coast.
According to Splash247, the proposed region would be the biggest of its type and would build on the North Sea and Baltic Sea's successful ECA deployments as well as the upcoming Mediterranean restrictions scheduled for 2025.
ICCT analysis suggests, by imposing more stringent regulations on shipping emissions, the programme may prevent hundreds of premature deaths in 2030 alone.