Regulations and Government
U.S. Ambassador to ICAO Skeptical Council Can Reach ETS Consensus
The U.S. Ambassador to ICAO questions whether it will move on emissions market-based measures.
Ambassador Duane Woerth, the U.S. representative to the ICAO Council, is skeptical the international organization will reach timely consensus on instituting market-based measures to control aircraft emissions. (Photo: Bill Carey)
Ambassador Duane Woerth, the U.S. representative to the ICAO Council, is skeptical the international organization will reach timely consensus on instituting market-based measures to control aircraft emissions. (Photo: Bill Carey)

The airline industry, major manufacturers and some two dozen nations have argued that aviation emissions should be addressed by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), not by the European Union and its emissions trading scheme (ETS). But the U.S. Ambassador to the ICAO Council, in an April 12 speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, expressed skepticism that ICAO’s assembly can agree on market-based measures to control emissions when it meets in September 2013.