Emissions trading

ICAO reports progress on CO2 standard

“Global aviation moved an important step closer to establishing a worldwide CO2 Standard for aircraft” announced ICAO yesterday. The organisation said in a statement that it’s “Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) unanimously agreed on a CO2 metric system which characterizes the CO2 emissions for aircraft types with varying technologies”. “The new CO2 metric system agreed….by States, as well as intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, addresses emissions from a wide variety of aircraft on a fair and transparent basis,” stressed ICAO Council President, Roberto Kobeh González. “It includes factors which account for fuselage geometry, maximum take-off weight and fuel burn performance at three different cruise conditions and is a major move forward.”