ICAO Wants to Reduce Aircraft Emissions via Better Efficiency

The International Civil Aviation Organization agreed on September 28^th to create a new group on International Aviation and Climate Change composed of senior government officials that will formulate an "implementation framework" that its Contracting States can use to achieve emissions reductions by achieving better fuel efficiency.

Options to be considered include voluntary measures, technological advances in both aircraft and ground-based equipment, more efficient operational measures, improvements in air traffic management, positive economic incentives and market-based measures.

While the Assembly agreed that market-based options are valuable tools for addressing aircraft emissions, the majority of the delegations felt that States should not apply emissions trading systems to the airlines of other States except pursuant to mutual agreement.  09-30-2007.

Click here to become a registered Flt Tech Online subscriber and receive headlines delivered to your e-mail each week

Click here to go back to the headlines