IATA Backs Carbon Neutrality Plan To Avoid Return of ETS
IATA director general and CEO Tony Tyler urged world governments to join his 240 airline members in backing a multilateral plan for market-based measures to achieve carbon neutrality for air transport by 2020.  (Photo: IATA)
IATA director general and CEO Tony Tyler urged world governments to join his 240 airline members in backing a multilateral plan for market-based measures to achieve carbon neutrality for air transport by 2020. (Photo: IATA)

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has endorsed a plan for global adoption of market-based measures (MBMs) to cut aircraft emissions, calling on world governments to agree to the move at ICAO’s Assembly later this year and so secure an alternative to Europe’s controversial emissions trading scheme (ETS). At its June 2 to 4 annual general meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, IATA “overwhelmingly” adopted a resolution called the Implementation of the Aviation Carbon Neutral (NCG2020) Strategy. The European Commission agreed last year to suspend the imposition of ETS on all international flights in and out of the European Union if ICAO adopts an equivalent global program when it meets in September.