Pollution and Incident Control

There is a need for research to understand Arctic pollution and how to respond to it, with a specific challenge for a skills assessment of new competences needed to deal with Arctic pollution incidents. This challenge can also be categorised with Personnel, Education and Training.

There is a challenge to ensure all vessels covered by Polar Code or similar regulations. This challenge can also be categorised with Navigation and Voyage Planning.

There is a challenge for further development of international decontamination strategies and technologies.

There is a need for regulations on heavy oils in the Arctic region.

There is a challenge for demilitarisation strategies in the Arctic region.

There is a challenge for enhanced international agreements and commitments relating to nuclear facilities and vessels in the ANA region.

There is a challenge for enhanced and standardised international Arctic pollution regulations for prevention of oil spills.

There is a challange for enhanced technology for oil recovery under ANA conditions.

There is a need for enhanced pollution monitoring sensors in the ANA region.

There is a challenge for satellite data analysis tools for oil spill management. This challenge can also be categorised with Communication.