✔️Polar fuel standard. Another approach to the projectile.
✔️So, during the 12th session of the Subcommittee on Pollution Prevention held last week, another attempt was made to advance the development of a polar fuel standard, a set of characteristics of marine fuel that is supposed to be allowed for use in polar waters, or rather, to ban all others that do not fit into these characteristics.
✔️The topic is mainly pedaled by the "greens", who essentially want to create an alternative mechanism for banning the use of fuel oil and fuel mixtures close to the characteristics of residual types, because a direct ban would not fully work. Although a number of Arctic powers like Malta or Nigeria also seem to be not against it.
✔️The delegations were not even stuck on the specific values of certain characteristics (viscosity, density, cetane number...), but on the set of possible characteristics that should (or should not) be taken into account.
✔️As a result, the story was postponed for at least a year. And this is for the best, since the desire of some to regulate this issue is inversely proportional to the scientific basis and common sense.
