Progress Made on the Development of a Global Market-based Measure for Aircraft Emissions

摘要

In late February 2016, after nearly two and a half years of diligent but difficult work on a requirement imposed on it by the 38th Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in late 2013, the ICAO Council came up with a Draft Policy Proposal on a Global Market-based Measure (GMBM) Scheme. This draft policy proposal was incorporated into a draft Assembly Resolution that advocates, as its suggested GMBM, a single global carbon-offsetting scheme. Before examining the draft Resolution in some detail, it is useful to look into the history of how the issue has been handled by ICAO.