Join Harvard's Davis Center for a talk with Michael Kingston on increasing trends in Arctic shipping and Northern Sea Route transit. Kingston studies these phenomena in the context of the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and the Costa Concordia Disaster in Italy in 2012, which caused significant concern in the London Insurance Market. Michael worked as legal adviser on leading reports by Lloyd’s of London into the incidents and also worked on Lloyd’s of London’s leading report into Arctic risk in the shadow of these disaster, which resulted in significant recommendations with far-reaching affect in both the development of the International Maritime Organization’s Polar Code for Shipping, and in the development of the Arctic Council’s Arctic Shipping Best Practice Information Forum, as established by the eight Arctic states.

Speakers:

Michael Kingston, managing director, Michael Kingston Associates; special advisor, Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) Working Group, Arctic Council

George Soroka (moderator), lecturer, Harvard University; center associate, Davis Center