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Airlines urged the International Civil Aviation
Organisation to back a mandatory global framework to curb
airline emissions,
saying failure to reach a deal would revive threats of a trade war.
IATA, which represents about 200 airlines, said
the ICAO could agree on a new system when its 191 states
begin their assembly in
Montreal this week.
Reuters reported that the ICAO, which sets
standards for air travel, is under pressure to make headway
toward resolving one
of the worst aviation disputes in years, pitting the European Union against its
trade
rivals. The ICAO meets in full once every three years.
Greenhouse gas emissions from commercial flights
are growing at a steep rate. The EU in 2011 came up with regulations to charge
airlines for carbon emissions on flights to and from Europe over EU
airspace.
But it has suspended the scheme to allow
opponents led by China and the United States to agree on a
global plan to curb
aviation emissions under UN auspices. The EU has threatened to re-impose the
scheme if there is no deal.
“If the assembly agrees what could be done from
2020, and what should be done in the meantime, I believe
governments will work
toward implementing that,” IATA director general Tony Tyler told reporters on
Monday.
Culled from Punch
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