Insidious Air Pollution. Legal Regimes for Arctic Climate Change

... more than twice of the global mean; surface air temperatures in recent years exceeded those of any year since 1900, and the volume of winter sea ice has declined by 75 per cent since 1979 .” One of the reasons for such climatic changes is excessive air pollution coming from offshore activities. Producing, processing and combusting oil and gas release large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and methane (CH 4 ), two core greenhouse gases (GHG). The majority of anthropogenic emissions on a global scale ...