Sustainability and Environment
ICAO Sets Reporting Rules for CO2 Offset Scheme
Key decisions on offset and biofuel criteria pushed back.

Describing it as a “landmark decision,” the International Civil Aviation Organization Council last month approved a package of rules and standards to ready its planned Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) for takeoff. The global-market-based measure, which aims to cap the growth of international aviation carbon dioxide at 2020 levels, starts with a pilot phase in 2021 but all airlines producing annual CO2 emissions above 10,000 tonnes will need to measure and report their emissions on cross-border flights from January to allow for the calculation of a sectoral 2020 emission baseline.