Sustainability and Environment
Conflicting Climate Plans Set To Clash on January 1
The EU’s emissions trading scheme could resume in January for international flights, creating friction with ICAO’s developing CORSIA plan

The European Commission is racing its own “stop the clock” countdown on international aviation carbon emissions. The European Union emissions trading scheme (ETS), which the EC suspended in 2012 to allow the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) time to secure consensus on a global agreement, will automatically resume on January 1, 2017, absent any further action before then.