The United States "is showing a willingness to have a forward-looking dialogue"to resolve the escalating dispute over the EU's plans for curbing aviation emissions,Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard has said, wrapping up two days of meetings with US administration officials and lawmakers in Washington. The US focus was increasingly turning to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) in Montreal, Canada, where "some progress is being made" in talks for a global agreement to reduce aviation emissions to address climate change, Hedegaard told Europolitics environment. She said that the EU was willing to compromise at ICAO and "did not have one final recipe" for what the ICAO agreement should contain. She noted that market-based mechanisms would be discussed at a June meeting.
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