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ICAO has been working on addressing aviation emissions since 1996 but has failed to take meaningful action. In 2013, the ICAO council established expert groups to evaluate market-based measures (MBMs) to reduce emissions, but the high level group was unable to agree on implementing global MBMs. Without agreement at ICAO, the EU moved forward with including aviation in its emissions trading scheme starting in 2012. ICAO now aims to provide guidance for countries to include international aviation in their national emissions trading programs but has ruled out a global trading scheme of its own.
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- 1. ICAO and Aviation Emissions: The clock is ticking 1 IACO Environmental Report 2010, available at: http://legacy.icao.int/icao/en/env2010/Pubs/EnvReport2010/ICAO_EnvReport10-Outlook_en.pdf 2 http://www.icao.int/Newsroom/Pages/new-ICAO-council-high-level-group-to-focus-on-environmental-policy-challenges.aspx 1996 1997 2001 2002 2004 2008 2010 2012 January 2012 November 2013 May ICAO rules out establishing a global emissions trading scheme for aviation. ICAO plan to provide instead“guidance consistent with the UNFCCC process”to countries for the inclusion of international aviation emissions into national emissions trading programs. ICAO Assembly adopts guiding principles for aviation market-based measures (MBM) and calls for the development by 2013 of a ‘Framework’for MBMs: a set of rules that countries should respect when implementing such measures individually. The Assembly also endorses a decision to develop a CO2 standard for new aircraft – a move which had been ruled out back in 2001. ICAO considers the climate impact of aviation, even before the Kyoto Protocol, but resolves that any environmental levies on aviation should be in the form of charges not fuel taxes. The Kyoto Protocol asks developed countries to work through ICAO to limit/reduce aviation emissions. After 11 years of ICAO inaction, EU includes aviation in the EU ETS commencing 2012. ICAO endorses the development of an open emissions trading system (ETS) for aviation. After five years of ICAO inaction, European Parliament and Council first instructs the Commission to propose aviation emission reductions if ICAO does not act. ICAO recognises the technical feasibility of global MBMs, sets up a High Level Group. Commission proposes to defer the compliance of flights from and to Europe by one year. If ICAO does not deliver in one year, the scheme is automatically reinstated. ICAO Council establishes an Expert Group to evaluate the technical feasibility of various options for a global MBM, also starts work on the Framework for implementing national/regional MBMs. High Level Group fails to agree on any key issues relating to MBMs; no agreement to implement a global MBM at 2013 Assembly. EU posits global MBM roadmap for 2016 Assembly Most participants want to constrain EU ETS to EU soverign airspace.