The aviation industry is notoriously complicated, and its national regulations are often difficult to navigate. The latest example of this is the contradiction between the United Nations’ (UN) Corsia aviation emissions scheme, designed to force airlines to cap their environmental impact, and the European Union’s own emissions trading scheme (ETS).
According to a new resolution by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (Icao), Corsia is now expected to “be the only market-based measure applied to international flights.” The aim is to avoid duplicate counting of emissions, but EU countries were called on by European authorities to lodge a formal “reservation” at a meeting last Friday. Transport officials only made verbal objections.
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