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02 Lug 2020

IATA Welcomes ICAO Council Decision on CORSIA

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Airlines are committed to reducing net emissions to half 2005 levels by 2050.

 

Geneva - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) welcomes the decision by the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to use 2019 as a baseline for the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). In 2022, the ICAO Assembly will consider if further amendments are necessary to address the impacts of COVID-19 to ensure the successful implementation of the scheme.

 

Airlines are committed to reducing net emissions to half 2005 levels by 2050. This commitment is unchanged. CORSIA is a vital step in that direction, enabling carbon-neutral growth that will stabilize net emissions from international aviation at 2019 levels (580 million tonnes of carbon).

 

Originally, the CORSIA baseline calculation was agreed to be an average of 2019 and 2020 emissions.  The ongoing and unprecedented COVID-19 crisis has seen a precipitous drop in demand for air transport of more than half compared with 2019. As a result, the CORSIA baseline would have been severely skewed if 2020 emissions were used for the calculation. This does not weaken the impact of CORSIA. By excluding the extraordinary COVID-19 events of 2020, airlines will stabilize their emissions at levels anticipated when CORSIA was agreed by ICAO’s 193 member states in 2016.

 

Today’s decision is important because, at a time of extreme volatility, it provides immediate certainty and a clear path forward for the successful implementation of CORSIA. CORSIA is a critical step towards achieving the industry’s long-term strategy to address climate change by reducing its carbon emissions. Read more

 

Source: IATA

 

 

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