“Cut Shipping’s Black Carbon to Protect the Arctic”: Clean Arctic Alliance Response to ICCI & UNEP Overshoot & Cryosphere Reports

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The Clean Arctic Alliance called for reductions in shipping black carbon in response to reports from the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative and UNEP. The cited reports warn that overshooting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C target risks extensive and potentially irreversible damage to the cryosphere.

Responding to publication of two reports, Overshoot and the Cryosphere: Averting Global Meltdown and State of the Cryosphere 2026: The Cost of Overshoot by the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which find that overshooting the 1.5°C Paris Agreement target, which is now inevitable, will cause large-scale, and perhaps irreversible ...