A NEW study, published in the American Chemical Society's journal Environmental Science and Technology, has found that emissions from ships could be the cause of for more than 60,000 deaths globally a year. This appears to be on the basis of the proportion of emissions believed to be ship-sourced.
The study was carried out by by a team led by James Corbett of the University of Delaware and James Winebrake of the US Rochester Institute of Technology looks at premature mortality from exposure to particulate matter, nitrogen oxides (NOx), and sulphate from ship emissions.
The results have been presented to the IMO panel of experts charged with assembling data and putting together recommendations on ship-source pollution and CO2 emissions who are meeting this week.
The ES&T research was partly sponsored by the environmental groups Clean Air Task Force and Friends of the Earth International which is taking part in the IMO discussions.
The study was carried out by by a team led by James Corbett of the University of Delaware and James Winebrake of the US Rochester Institute of Technology looks at premature mortality from exposure to particulate matter, nitrogen oxides (NOx), and sulphate from ship emissions.
The results have been presented to the IMO panel of experts charged with assembling data and putting together recommendations on ship-source pollution and CO2 emissions who are meeting this week.
The ES&T research was partly sponsored by the environmental groups Clean Air Task Force and Friends of the Earth International which is taking part in the IMO discussions.