ICAO Council adopts new CO2 emissions standard for aircraft

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Abuja, March 6, 2017 (NAN) The 36-State Council of International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has adopted a new aircraft CO2 emissions standard which will reduce the impact of aviation greenhouse gas emissions on the global climate.
ICAO disclosed this in a statement by its Chief of Communications, Anthony Philbin, in Montreal, Canada and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja.
Philbin said that the aircraft CO2 emissions measure represented the world’s first global design certification standard governing CO2 emissions for any industry sector.
He said the measure was contained in a new Volume III to Annex 16 of the Chicago Convention on Environmental Protection.
ICAO said that the Standard would apply to new aircraft type designs from 2020, and to aircraft type designs already in-production as of 2023.
Philbin added that those in-production aircraft which by 2028 did not meet the standard would no longer be able to be produced unless their designs were sufficiently modified.
ICAO Council President, Dr Benard Aliu said that international civil aviation had once again taken pioneering action to address the impact of aviation CO2 emissions on the global climate .
This, according to Aliu, has made the air transport the first industry sector globally to adopt a CO2 emissions design certification standard.
Alongside our 39th Assembly’s landmark agreement last October on the new Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), this latest development confirms our sector’s leadership and concrete actions toward a sustainable and environmentally responsible future for global civil aviation.”
Also, ICAO Secretary General, Dr Fang Liu says; “this historic accomplishment places aviation in an even better position as we look forward to a greener era of air transport development.
“The dedicated work of the ICAO Secretariat, the hundreds of experts who compose ICAO’s Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP), and the State representatives on our Air Navigation Commission has been commended .”  (NAN)
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======Edited by Morayo Omolade