We are all in this together, says IATA chief in call for industry unity over global aviation emissions market measure

IATA Director General Tony Tyler told airline industry delegates at this year’s AGM held in Miami that he was confident the ICAO Assembly later next year would prove “another major step forward” towards the implementation of a global market-based measure (GMBM) from 2020. However, he cautioned, the industry had to maintain unity over the issue as there was a common interest in the outcome. The absence of an ICAO global scheme would result in an “untenable web” of local and regional taxes and charges, he said, and added that progress on aviation biofuels was being held back by a lack of government support. IATA forecasts released at the AGM show airlines collectively anticipate emitting 757 million tonnes of CO2 in 2015, up 4.6% on the previous year but is still expected to align with the industry’s annual fuel efficiency improvement goal. [...]

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