Environmental Defense Fund: ICAO Council Bows to Aviation Industry Request to Rewrite First Three Years of Climate Program Rules
July 01, 2020
July 01, 2020
NEW YORK, July 1 -- The Environmental Defense Fund issued the following statement by International Counsel Annie Petsonk:
The 36-member Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) unilaterally changed the rules for the first three years of the agency's flagship climate program, the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). The Council decided to change the baseline to 2019 levels, in effect suspending airlines' obligations to off . . .
The 36-member Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) unilaterally changed the rules for the first three years of the agency's flagship climate program, the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). The Council decided to change the baseline to 2019 levels, in effect suspending airlines' obligations to off . . .