Turbulence and Energy Laboratory
University of Windsor
Professor Ida-Maja Hassellöv has a background in marine chemistry which she applies in studies of pressures and impacts of human activities, in particular shipping, on the marine environment. Dr. Hassellöv is the coordinating author of the shipping chapter in the third UN World Ocean Assessment and is frequently providing advise to national and international policy development related to shipping.
Wake up! A call for holistic environmental assessment of shipping.
Maritime transport is the backbone of global trade and responsible for close to 3% of the worldwide annual anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. In response to these figures, the International Maritime Organization has set out an ambitious GHG Strategy aiming at net-zero GHG emissions from shipping by 2050. This strong focus on decarbonization is important, yet it overshadows the need to mitigate other types of shipping related environmental pressures and impacts. In coastal areas, where the largest shipping densities are found, the resulting contaminant load can be substantial e.g. copper from antifouling paints close to 40% and organic contaminants from exhaust gas treatment systems (scrubbers) 8-9% per compound. In fact, a ship can be compared to a floating industry, giving rise to an array of biological, chemical and energy pollution, but the regulatory frameworks usually address one onboard system at the time, one ship at the time in the strive to prevent pollution. From a marine environment perspective, there is a need to consider the cumulative pressure from all onboard systems, from all ships in the geographic area of interest. This presentation will address environmental challenges of shipping and provide recent examples when science have led to improvement of the global policy development to protect our ocean.
Dr. Graham Reader, BA, BTech (Hons), PhD, psc, FEC, PEng, CEng, CMarE, Eur Ing, FIMarEst
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Registration: Forging Forward Tenably 2026 / Holistic Engineering 2026
Engineering may be defined as bettering life via the appropriate application of science and mathematics. This bettering encompasses
the lives of both current and the next seven generations. As such, a Cleaner Earth & Atmosphere is the only way to forge ahead. Gro
Harlem Brundtland put this eloquently when she proclaimed, “Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Forging Forward Tenably 2026 and Holistic
Engineering 2026 are about sustaining a good living standard with reduced entropy production. While all processes faithfully follow
the second law of thermodynamics in producing entropy, much can be done in lessening the amount of entropy generated. This
symposium provides a venue for experts from diverse backgrounds to exchange knowledge about their respective state-of-the-art
progress to foster interdisciplinary collaboration to solidify eco-friendly engineering. Topics of interest include sustainable living,
cradle-to-cradle farming and engineering, tenable development, and waste and pollution reduction and management.
2030 – the passing of another courageous deadline?
After more than 50 years of trying to fully harmonize human well-being with that of the
Earth, particularly with regard to defeating anthropogenic climate change, eliminating
poverty and hunger, and embracing a radical transition in energy sourcing on a global
scale, what has been achieved? Will the efforts of the latest attempts embodied in the
2015 triumvirate of UN endorsed resolutions, the ‘Paris Agreement,’ ‘Transforming Our
World: Agenda 2030,’ and the ‘Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction,’ prove to
be successful, and if so, when? If the associated endeavours do not result in the various
triumvirate goals being fulfilled in their entirety, what next? Are the goals overly
ambitious or the targets appropriate but the quantifiable indicators imperfect? The lack
of political will and the shortfall in meeting financial investment commitments are often
citied as the reasons for the continuing performance disappointments but how can
nations with huge debts afford to invest more? With the somewhat short lifetimes of
democratic governments can consistently harmonizing policies be guaranteed to ensure
climate change mitigation and sustainable development? This presentation will address
some of these contentious issues.
The 9th Cleaner Earth & Atmosphere Conference
Forging Forward Tenably 2026 / Holistic Engineering 2026
Symposium and Industry Summit
June 18-19, 2026
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Keynote Speakers