Arctic is a powerful tool to combat climate change. Including more sectors under the Climate Change Convention, calling for a mandatory regime for MRV that calls for independent third party verification of emissions and a mandate for slow steaming to directly address Black Carbon.

1. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT, 2016
ROME, ITALY
Looking beyond Climate Change
Convention to attain Global
Sustainability Targets

2. Contentious Arctic to
become a part of the
solution to global warming
and climate change

3. Tackling Black Carbon and
Methane emissions at
Arctic to curb future sea
level rise.

4. A mandate for MRV as a non-
starter under the Kyoto
Protocol and the dissent to
empower independent third
party verification of emissions.

5. Slow steaming, a viable
operational measure to reduce
Black Carbon
Taking forward the ABC treaty or
the Framework for BC and
Methane Emissions in the Arctic.

6. Geopolitical issues haunt the
Arctic as geological interests
of nations attempt to
capitalize on the vulnerability
of the region.

7. Unfaltering steps towards Arctic Sustainability:
• Providing an uniform definition to the term ‘BC’’.
• Declaring Arctic as ‘common heritage of mankind.
• Moratorium on hydrocarbon exploitation in the
region
• Preventing militarization of the Arctic
• Rendering the Framework for BC and Methane
Emissions as a binding agreement.
• Ensure compliance of slow steaming method.