| Airlines want one global deal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from air travel despite higher costs, in order to avoid a patchwork of regulation that would be harder to manage, an executive of the International Air Transport Association trade group said on Friday.
The market-based plan must win the support of the United Nations aviation agency's 191 member countries at a fall assembly, or risk the European Union's imposing its own emissions trading scheme on international airlines. At its annual meeting last week in Dublin, the trade group said the deal led by the International Civil Aviation Organisation, or ICAO, should be the only agreement to reduce emissions from international aviation...............................................Full Article: Source |