Open letter to EU Transport and Climate Commissioners on the EU position ahead of 39th ICAO General Assembly

The International Coalition for Sustainable Aviation (ICSA) warns the EU against prioritizing the breadth of participation in the ICAO Global Market Based Mechanism (GMBM) over environmental integrity. The letter argues that without safeguards against double-counting and low-quality offsets, the GMBM will fail to address aviation emissions. It calls for the EU to make its commitment to the GMBM contingent on the inclusion of transparency and environmental safeguards, drawing on the EU's own experience with the Union registry and the Paris Agreement.

• The authors argue that a Global Market Based Mechanism (GMBM) will be ineffective at addressing aviation emissions if it lacks safeguards to prevent double counting and ensure the environmental integrity of offsets, regardless of how many countries participate.
• The current draft Assembly agreement is criticized for lacking guarantees on environmental integrity, the avoidance of double-counting, and the transparency of registries.
• The EU is urged to make its support for the GMBM contingent on the inclusion of effective environmental safeguards to avoid misleading the public about the mitigation of aviation's climate impact.

APA

Carbon Market Watch (2016). Open letter to EU Transport and Climate Commissioners on the EU position ahead of 39th ICAO General Assembly. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/open-letter-to-eu-transport-and-climate-commissioners-on-the-eu-position-ahead-of-39th-icao-general-assembly/

Chicago

Carbon Market Watch. Open letter to EU Transport and Climate Commissioners on the EU position ahead of 39th ICAO General Assembly. 2016. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/open-letter-to-eu-transport-and-climate-commissioners-on-the-eu-position-ahead-of-39th-icao-general-assembly/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{carbonmarketwatch2016open, author = {{Carbon Market Watch}}, title = {{Open letter to EU Transport and Climate Commissioners on the EU position ahead of 39th ICAO General Assembly}}, publisher = {Carbon Market Watch}, year = {2016}, month = sep, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/open-letter-to-eu-transport-and-climate-commissioners-on-the-eu-position-ahead-of-39th-icao-general-assembly/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }