Time for EU to act on airline emissions as UN aviation agency's climate ambitions take a nosedive

Carbon Market Watch criticizes the ICAO General Assembly for weakening the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) by lowering its emissions baseline to 85% of 2019 levels. The author contends that CORSIA is an ineffective tool relying on low-quality offsets and is susceptible to industry influence. Consequently, the document urges the EU to stop relying on this global system and expand the EU ETS to cover all long-haul flights departing and arriving in the EU.

• The ICAO General Assembly has reduced the CORSIA baseline to 85% of 2019 emissions levels, which is estimated to cover only 22% of emissions (154 million tonnes of CO2) by 2030, compared to 31.7% under the previous baseline.
• CORSIA is described as an ineffective system because it primarily covers growth in emissions rather than total emissions and depends on low-quality offsets that do not achieve real emissions reductions.
• The ICAO reached a non-binding Long Term Aspirational Goal (LTAG) to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, but this was negotiated as a package that included the watering down of the CORSIA system.
• There is uncertainty regarding whether Brazil, China, India, Russia, and Vietnam will participate in the second phase of CORSIA starting in 2027.
• The author recommends that the EU expand the scope of the EU Emission Trading System to include all long-haul flights arriving in and departing from the EU to address aviation emissions regionally.

APA

Daniele (2022). Time for EU to act on airline emissions as UN aviation agency's climate ambitions take a nosedive. Carbon Market Watch. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/2022/11/04/time-for-eu-to-act-on-airline-emissions-as-un-aviation-agencys-climate-ambitions-take-a-nosedive-2/

Chicago

Daniele. Time for EU to act on airline emissions as UN aviation agency's climate ambitions take a nosedive. Carbon Market Watch, 2022. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/2022/11/04/time-for-eu-to-act-on-airline-emissions-as-un-aviation-agencys-climate-ambitions-take-a-nosedive-2/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{daniele2022time, author = {Daniele}, title = {{Time for EU to act on airline emissions as UN aviation agency's climate ambitions take a nosedive}}, publisher = {Carbon Market Watch}, year = {2022}, month = nov, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/2022/11/04/time-for-eu-to-act-on-airline-emissions-as-un-aviation-agencys-climate-ambitions-take-a-nosedive-2/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }