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GOVTS MUST ACT ON AGREED CARBON EMISSION TARGETS, SAYS IATA
By Umi Hani Sharani
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 12 (Bernama) -- The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has urged governments to quickly implement agreed targets of reducing carbon emission at the just-concluded high level meeting on climate change in Montreal.
Its director general, Giovanni Bisignani said at the International Civil
Aviation organisation (ICAO) High Level Meeting on International Aviation and
Climate Change (HLM-ENV), governments recognised they need to work with industry
to secure a sustainable future for aviation.
In the ICAO HLM-ENV Declaration issued after the meeting, states agreed to
work together to achieve a global annual average fuel efficiency improvement of
two percent to 2020, followed by another annual two percent improvement from
2021 to 2050.
Besides that, ICAO and its contracting states would evaluate the possibility
of more ambitious goals by the next ICAO Assembly in 2010, taking into
consideration the industry's collective commitment and the special needs of
developing nations.
Bisignani said ICAO was also flexible in allowing certain developing
countries the time to close the gap with some developed countries in terms of
reducing their emission.
"Some developing countries like Singapore and the Gulf Area are more
advanced in this than some developed countries. They must understand that ICAO
allows for certain time for some countries to achieve the targets," he told
reporters via tele-conference here Saturday night.
The declaration also stated that ICAO was to establish the process to
develop a framewrok for economic measures, besides encouraging the development
and use of sustainable biofuels.
Although airlines have set even more ambitious targets than governments for
the longer term, Bisignani said the challenge was to close the gap by the next
ICAO Assembly next September.
IATA may have set fuel efficiency at only 1.5 percent annually by 2020 as
compared with the states' improvement target of two percent, but the association
also aims to reduce carbon emission by 50 percent by 2050, he said.
Asked if he was confident about the upcoming United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen this December, Bisignani
said the aviation sector would approach it with a strong forward-looking vision
for its future as a role model for other industries to follow.
-- BERNAMA
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 12 (Bernama) -- The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has urged governments to quickly implement agreed targets of reducing carbon emission at the just-concluded high level meeting on climate change in Montreal.
Its director general, Giovanni Bisignani said at the International Civil
Aviation organisation (ICAO) High Level Meeting on International Aviation and
Climate Change (HLM-ENV), governments recognised they need to work with industry
to secure a sustainable future for aviation.
In the ICAO HLM-ENV Declaration issued after the meeting, states agreed to
work together to achieve a global annual average fuel efficiency improvement of
two percent to 2020, followed by another annual two percent improvement from
2021 to 2050.
Besides that, ICAO and its contracting states would evaluate the possibility
of more ambitious goals by the next ICAO Assembly in 2010, taking into
consideration the industry's collective commitment and the special needs of
developing nations.
Bisignani said ICAO was also flexible in allowing certain developing
countries the time to close the gap with some developed countries in terms of
reducing their emission.
"Some developing countries like Singapore and the Gulf Area are more
advanced in this than some developed countries. They must understand that ICAO
allows for certain time for some countries to achieve the targets," he told
reporters via tele-conference here Saturday night.
The declaration also stated that ICAO was to establish the process to
develop a framewrok for economic measures, besides encouraging the development
and use of sustainable biofuels.
Although airlines have set even more ambitious targets than governments for
the longer term, Bisignani said the challenge was to close the gap by the next
ICAO Assembly next September.
IATA may have set fuel efficiency at only 1.5 percent annually by 2020 as
compared with the states' improvement target of two percent, but the association
also aims to reduce carbon emission by 50 percent by 2050, he said.
Asked if he was confident about the upcoming United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen this December, Bisignani
said the aviation sector would approach it with a strong forward-looking vision
for its future as a role model for other industries to follow.
-- BERNAMA
