How Ipieca supports a healthy ocean
Offshore environmental good practice
Ipieca helps companies manage and mitigate potential impacts around offshore operations by sharing good practice on environmental assessments, while promoting practices that benefit coastal communities.
Related resources:
Environmental management in the upstream oil and gas industry
Offshore impacts to fisheries: practitioner guidance for social baselines
Marine spill preparedness and response
Ipieca develops good practice to enable the industry and stakeholders to enhance marine spill preparedness and response globally in support of mitigating environmental and social impacts. Additionally, the Ipieca-IMO Global Initiative supports over 80 countries in developing national structures and capability for oil spill preparedness and response.
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Click here to view over 60 marine spill preparedness and response resources
Response to spills of alternative fuels and energy products fact sheets
Decarbonising shipping
Ipieca works with the IMO on its analysis of life cycle GHG emissions of shipping fuels and the development and uptake of lower-carbon shipping fuels.
Related resources:
Supporting the IMO Net-Zero Framework: decarbonisation of the maritime sector
Joint Industry Guidance on the supply and use of 0.50%-sulphur marine fuel
Supporting the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)
Ipieca guidance on enhancing marine life and operating near protected areas is aligned with the GBF’s ‘30 x 30’ target which calls for the protection of 30% of the worlds terrestrial and marine habitats by 2030 and a target on the sustainable management of aquaculture.
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