The same right to clean air: One Planet Port responds to EU air quality rules
People living in port cities have the same right to clean air as everyone else. One Planet Port asked the European Commission to keep its new air quality reporting rules strictly technical and to delete Article 4(2), which could let governments drop clean air measures for ports.
Carbon-free, not nitrogen-free: One Planet Port in Kyoto on the hidden footprint of ammonia shipping
At N2026, the International Nitrogen Conference in Kyoto, One Planet Port presented new research on ammonia as a ship fuel. It contains no carbon, but without strict controls its nitrogen losses could match those of today’s fuel oil. Shipping belongs in nitrogen action plans.
Beyond carbon: the nitrogen risks of ammonia as a ship fuel
Ammonia is being considered as a fuel for the future of shipping because it releases no carbon when burned. But does it really cut emissions as much as it seems to, and could it harm the environment in ways nobody intended? Those were the questions at the webinar Beyond Carbon: Environmental considerations of ammonia as […]
Small ports, big challenges: experts co-create policy for a just transition
How can small and medium-sized ports contribute to a just transition within planetary boundaries? That was the focus of a policy workshop that One Planet Port organised at TU Delft on 18 September, together with PortCityFutures and the European research network COST Action PACT. In Delft, participants came from various port contexts, including Puglia in […]
Announcing Right to Breathe: measure what’s in Rotterdam’s air
What’s in the air you breathe? In a port city like Rotterdam, where industry, shipping and heavy traffic sit right next to residential neighbourhoods, it’s an important question. Yet we often don’t know, especially when it comes to ultrafine particles: tiny particles that penetrate deep into your lungs and bloodstream, but are measured at just […]
New Diepgang episode: Charting the limits at the IABR
From his window, Theodor Reinhardt sees the flickering lights of the refineries. Banal, he calls it – so ordinary you almost overlook it. It led him to delve into how it all connects. Reinhardt – cartographer, researcher and designer, trained as an architect at TU Delft – maps those connections in his work ‘You can […]
The sustainable biomass myth: what public money should really be spent on
Is burning biomass to generate energy a good idea? According to the Dutch government it is, since it supports companies producing this form of ‘green power’ with billions in subsidies. But the sustainability claim is a myth, as the investigative journalism programme Zembla revealed on 10 September, in an episode about the link between energy […]
Join the conversation: take part in our class at the After Summer School
Can the Port of Rotterdam – Europe’s gateway – transform to operate within all nine planetary boundaries? At the After Summer School, join One Planet Port’s researchers, citizen scientists and policy advisors in conversation about the port’s impact and consider what it means in your own life. During the After Summer School 2026 (23 – […]
New episode of Diepgang: time for relationship therapy
In episode four of Diepgang – the series in which One Planet Port gives the floor to people with their own critical perspective on how the port affects their surroundings – researcher Christel Voncken shares her story. Christel moved to Schiemond to study, a neighbourhood right on the Maas in Rotterdam. From there she looks […]
From classroom to quayside: three workshops on ports within planetary boundaries
Seven of the nine planetary boundaries defined by science have been breached. Ports sit right in the middle of this crisis: as end nodes of the global maritime system, they enable the flows that push the Earth past its limits. This summer, One Planet Port brought that message across in workshops for researchers from the […]