The Working Group on Greening the Research Fleet (WGGRF) consolidates and distributes knowledge and best practice regarding the environmentally sustainable design, build, and operation of research vessels
WGGRF contributes to the Mission Ocean and Waters by addressing emerging techniques and technologies for designing, building, and operating research vessels in a way to reduce environmental impact, with an emphasis on emissions. Through reviewing current practices and emissions and developing best practices for designing new vessels and methods for incorporating new technologies, WGGRF will support the ambition of ICES to develop science that informs and supports emissions reduction, making the group’s work a high priority.
The group reviews and reports on emissions of selected international operating research vessels (case studies) and their environmental impact. They also review the renewal profile of the fleet, as well as relevant International Maritime Organization (IMO) and other regulations.
This group is open to all experts and will bring together experts from the ICES community and operational experts currently less frequent community members.
- Name of organisation
- International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
- Type of organisation
- International/EU organisation
- Type of action proposed
- Upscaling, deployment and replication of solutions
- The action contributes to the following objective or enabler
- Prevent and eliminate pollution of our ocean, seas and watersMake the sustainable blue economy carbon-neutral and circularOcean and waters knowledge system
- Start date of the action
- End date of the action
- Budget allocated for the action
- 0
- Basin coverage
- Cross-basin
- Website link
- info@ices.dk
- Country
- BelgiumCanadaDenmarkEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyIcelandIrelandLatviaLithuaniaNetherlandsNorwayPolandPortugalRussiaSpainSwedenUnited KingdomUnited States