Curbing Aviation Emissions
At an October 5 meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a United Nations agency, 191 nations agreed to a landmark accord to curb greenhouse gas emissions from international airline flights. The agreement applies to passenger and cargo flights that generate more than 10,000 tons of greenhouse gases annually. It is the first climate change pact to set global limits on a single industry. The new standard, the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, sets airlines’ carbon emissions in 2020 as the upper limit of what they are allowed to discharge. Airlines that exceed that limit in…
