Aether on board for ship emissions update

03 May 2017

Aether and their Dutch partners TNO are helping the Port of London Authority to develop a strategic evidence base to support London’s air quality improvement efforts. Aether and TNO will be developing an emissions inventory for all the navigable waterways in London, including the river Thames as far as Southend. The inventory will be based on cutting edge work undertaken in the Netherlands, including Europe’s largest port at Rotterdam, using real time ship and boat movements to build up a composite and complex emissions profile. This will allow the development of a realistic baseline for London river traffic emissions, the exploration of mitigation options and will feed into the London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory.

Aether, TNO and SGS, the international inspection, testing, certification and verification specialists, are also undertaking real world emissions testing for vessels on the Thames. This will assist in the development of updated shipping emissions factors, with a focus on third party tugs. The project will use internationally recognised emissions sampling protocols, applied in the context of Thames river traffic, it’s use patterns and environment. It will enable policy relevant data analysis such as the comparison of river freight journeys with their lorry based equivalent.

Both projects will support the development of a Port of London Authority air quality strategy, to be produced in the winter.

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“Aether is a great partner for work in the area of European Air Emissions. The team was committed, reliable, well organised and had a deep technical understanding and motivated other partners with their good spirit.”

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Alina Novikova, UN/ECE Secretariat

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Javier Cano Martín, Professional Unit for Climate Change and Environmental Services, CONAF (National Forestry Corporation), Chile

“Aether was a great asset in involving/engaging with Member States experts on highly technical subjects regarding GHG reporting. Very clear communication of issues and results.”

Andreas Pilzecker, DG CLIMA

“Engaging Aether to support us to develop the first GHG Inventory System and first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the United Republic of Tanzania has been a rewarding experience due to their high level of professionalism, creativity, timeliness and value for money. We will definitely consider Aether in our future initiatives.”

Abbas Kitogo, Programme Specialist Energy and Climate Change, UNDP Tanzania

“If we have a need for any more reports in the future Aether will be first on my list.”

Alan Hardy, Kyson Design

“The support provided by Aether for this project was especially remarkable considering the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tools and methods used in order to engage local stakeholders really added value to the capacity building of the national team.”

Shanna Emmanuel, Saint Lucia BUR Project Coordinator

“The team at Aether works very professionally and communicates very well which makes working with them a pleasure. Outputs are delivered on time to high quality. The team brings the rigour of technical knowledge and expertise and finds innovative ways of communicating complex messages. I would be happy to recommend the Aether team to organisations working on analysing and presenting emissions information in the public domain.”

Fiona Glover, States of Jersey

“Aether's approach to couple innovative visualisation with high expertise manpower delivered valuable insights for our inventory work.”

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