Joint declaration from EU member states and other nations reveals strong support for market-based scheme to limit aviation emissions
A group of 44 European countries have backed plans to implement a new global market-based measure to limit carbon emissions from airlines, issuing a joint declaration late last week saying they would be willing to apply the policy to airlines from 2021.
The declaration, signed by the EU's 28 member states and 16 other nations, was issued late last week ahead of a major meeting of the UN aviation body later this month. The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is due to meet in Montreal to formally agree a mandatory global offset scheme for civil aviation.
The countries say in the declaration they "intend to implement the global market-based measure scheme for international aviation from the start". They join the US, Canada, Mexico and Indonesia, which have also already signalled that they plan to join the offsetting scheme from the outset.
The declaration calls on other nations to lend their backing to the policy ahead of the ICAO Congress, which starts on September 27.
The public display of support for an offsetting scheme comes amid growing fears that negotiations have been derailed by some countries seeking a later start date and more generous exemptions for poorer nations. Last month industry sources signalled that discussions were underway to allow the offsetting scheme to be voluntary for the first five years.
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