Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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The International Civil Aviation Organization Council took a step forward on the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), adopting a new agreement that lays the groundwork for states and airlines to put the market-based emissions-offsetting scheme into place. The adopted First Edition of Annex 16, Volume IV comes within two years of the landmark agreement between ICAO’s 192 member states in fall 2016 for a phase-in of CORSIA.

 


The 2016 CORSIA agreement is aimed at capping emissions on international flights at 2020 levels, with voluntary participation beginning at 2021 and mandatory participation not required before 2027. Important to business aviation, the agreement carved out small emitters, including most business aircraft operators and light aircraft, from the market-based scheme.

 


The agreement announced today lays out requirements for airlines and states to report the emissions of international flights and calculate the carbon reduction and offsetting obligations of individual airlines, according to the Environmental Defense Fund, which called it a “significant step forward.”

 


“Gaining agreement on this new Volume IV to Annex 16 is critical to helping states and airlines to operationalize CORSIA per its established deadlines,” said ICAO Council president Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu. “This especially pertains to its monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) scheme, which describes in detail what has to be done, by whom, starting with the collection of information on international aviation CO2 emissions by airlines as of January 2019.” Aliu added the MRV provisions have been tested through 10 airlines with the support of Germany and six other states.

 


The council further approved the 2018 version of the ICAO CORSIA CO2Estimation and Reporting Tool (CERT), a simplified tool for small operators to monitor and report their CO2 emissions.

 


Further details on the program must still be ironed out surrounding the program's emission unit eligibility and credits for sustainability criteria. But, Aliu added, “Aviation has now set out not only its climate change goals but also the means to achieve them. The progress achieved today is a clear demonstration of the unwavering commitment, on behalf of both governments and airlines, to minimize the future impact of international aviation on the global climate."

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