Airline chief warns governments not to squander opportunity for a global sectoral solution for aviation
Posted by JLow on Oct 8, 2009
This week saw the Greener Skies 2009 conference being held in Hong Kong, where airlines came together to discuss the ways forward for the aviation industry in tackling climate change and policies on carbon emissions.
General sentiment is that while on the surface it appears logical that respective nations’ governments should be imposing their own policies on carbon emissions, since the nature and operations of the aviation sector is cross-border, requiring individual airline companies to comply with respective carbon policies of the countries to which they fly creates a whole myriad of complexities in terms of regulations, taxes, and maybe even carbon prices.
Below is the reproduction of a recent article update on the conference from GreenAirOnline. It summarises the united front of the sector in preparation of the Copenhagen summit in Dec 2009, calling for the global policy makers to consider a holistic single approach for the aviation industry, instead of leaving it to individual nations and their respective, and potentially differing, policies for a global sector such as the aviation sector.
John Low
Malaysia Airlines
