aviation emissions News

A majority of the 190 governments belonging to the international body that oversees civil aviation have agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft. The decision, taken Friday by the International Civil Aviation Organization, will cover 90 percent of worldwide air traffic.  The deal breaks a 10 year ICAO stalemate over greenhouse gases and marks the first time governments have ...

Oct. 14, 2010

By GLOBE Foundation

The aviation industry has taken the first step towards limiting the ever-growing carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft in an attempt to reduce airline contributions to global warming. Delegates at the 39th congress of the International Civil Aviation ...

Oct. 10, 2016

By Climate News Network

Airlines should be included in the European carbon trading scheme (ETS), EU environment ministers agreed almost unanimously on Tuesday. Most also said there should be no initial exemption for flights to and from non-EU destinations. But there was no consensus on when carbon caps should be first applied to the sector. In their first public debate on draft legislation to include aircraft emissions ...

Feb. 22, 2007

By Environmental News and Data Services (ENDS)

A landmark agreement aimed at getting the global airline sector to cut carbon emissions by 2020 was approved by the general assembly of the United Nations group that oversees civil aviation. Delegates from 184 member countries of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) ratified the agreement on Friday. The agreement, a ...

Oct. 4, 2013

By Associated Press

Commenting on this week's vow by airlines to cut emissions, Friends of the Earth's Executive Director Andy Atkins said: 'The aviation industry rightly recognises that it must play its part in tackling climate change - but it mustn't be allowed to create  a smokescreen that lets governments off the hook. 'Emissions from flying must be cut, but this must be done without using offsetting - ...

Sep. 23, 2009

By Friends of the Earth

The UN calls for the aviation industry to improve fuel efficiency by 2% a year to 2020, reports EnvidoThe UN aviation authority, the ICAO, has agreed to halve carbon emissions from aviation by 2050.The International Air Transport Association (IATA) proposal released last month included halving carbon emissions from aviation by 2050, ensuring carbon emissions peak from the same date and improving ...

Oct. 13, 2009

By Vital Efficienci Ltd.

Efforts seeking to reduce emissions from the aviation and shipping sectors got a boost in recent weeks. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) adopted a new emissions standard for aircraft, and the European Commission put forward proposals addressing emissions from both the aviation and shipping sectors. Emissions from the aviation and shipping sectors account for 2% and 2.5% of ...

Mar. 9, 2017

By International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

EU member states yesterday succumbed to pressure from third countries and the aviation industry and decided to shrink the aviation emissions trading system (ETS) to only cover flights between EU airports until 2016. This decision leaves long-haul flights totally unregulated and sends the signal internationally that EU sovereignty can be curtailed through outside pressure.> This deal would ...

Mar. 5, 2014

By Transport and Environment (T&E)

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) announces more drastic cuts in UK aviation carbon emissions, reports Envido.The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has argued that to achieve a global reduction of 50% of all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 the UK may be forced to cut carbon emissions by 90% by 2050 to allow the aviation industry to adopt low-carbon technologies. Asking consumers to fly less, ...

Sep. 11, 2009

By Vital Efficienci Ltd.

Aviation offers many economic and social benefits, but at a cost. In particular, aviation creates greenhouse gas emissions and may have negative impacts on the local community, such as noise. A new report argues that a stronger evidence base establishing the true benefits and impacts of aviation is needed before any major decisions on the expansion of airports can be made. The aviation industry ...

Jun. 19, 2008

By European Commission, Environment DG

The European Commission has launched an online public consultation on guidelines for the monitoring, reporting and verification of CO2 emissions from civil aviation. Such guidelines are necessary to ensure that the requirements of the EU Emissions Trading Directive will be applied in a harmonised way to all aircraft operators when the aviation sector is brought into the EU Emissions Trading ...

Oct. 7, 2008

By European Commission, Environment DG

Opposition to EU plans to include non-European airlines in its Emissions Trading System from 2012 erupted this week with Airbus and Virgin Atlantic warning of a potential trade war with China. But the European Commission has said it will not back down - a position supported by environmental NGOs and carbon market investors. The US and Chinese aviation industries have been unhappy with the ...

Jun. 9, 2011

By GLOBE Foundation

The European Parliament’s Environment Committee voted today for a one-year ‘stop the clock’ derogation from the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) for flights to and from Europe[1]. Environmental NGOs Transport & Environment (T&E), WWF, Germanwatch and Brot für die Welt think the ‘stop the clock’ concession is bigger than necessary given the limited ...

Feb. 26, 2013

By Transport and Environment (T&E)

The UN's aviation agency is pressing on with developing the framework for a global emissions trading scheme despite a growing number of regional and national schemes, a top official for the group said on Friday. Emissions from international aviation fall outside reduction commitments of the Kyoto Protocol but will be part of a new and broader UN climate pact that about 190 nations will try to ...

Jan. 19, 2009

By Environmental News Network (ENN)

A new report from the Committee on Climate Change, published today, on how to deliver the ambitious climate targets agreed in Paris in 2015 identifies aviation as a ‘hard to treat’ sector and continues to caution against unlimited passenger growth. The Government’s priority, CCC ...

Oct. 13, 2016

By A.E.F. S.r.l.

Members of the European Parliament today capitulated to pressure, bullying and threats from third countries, the aviation industry and EU leaders lacking vision and courage by voting to shrink the aviation emissions trading system (ETS). The weakened ETS will only cover flights between EU airports until 2017, which leaves long-haul flights totally unregulated and thus reduces the amount of CO2 ...

Apr. 3, 2014

By Transport and Environment (T&E)

A leading American airline is thought to be behind an intensive push by the USA and other governments to prevent international aviation entering the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in January. Earlier this month, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (Icao) approved a non-binding resolution calling on the EU to rethink emissions trading for flights involving non-EU airlines, ...

Nov. 21, 2011

By Transport and Environment (T&E)

The reinsertion of international aviation and shipping emissions into the draft Paris agreement has been welcomed by sustainable transport group Transport & Environment after it was dropped from text issued by the talks’ co-chairs on 5 October. However, the draft’s language needs to be considerably strengthened if it is to help curb the two sectors’ growing climate impact, ...

Oct. 26, 2015

By Transport and Environment (T&E)

The decision to include aviation in the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme has been welcomed by UK Environment Secretary Hilary Benn. Mr Benn said that last week’s groundbreaking agreement, which saw all 27 EU countries support the proposal, is a major step forward for the fight against climate change. Under the new agreement, emissions from aviation will be capped at 2004-06 levels so ...

Dec. 26, 2007

MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, October 2, 2007 (ENS) - The United Nations body responsible for regulating the aviation industry, wound up its annual assembly in Montreal on Friday without requiring that airlines limit their greenhouse gas emissions by participating in the existing European emissions trading system. Instead, the International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO, created a ...

Oct. 3, 2007

By Environment News Service (ENS)