The EU is offering fresh concessions on its scheme to tackle airlines’ carbon pollution, in an effort to persuade a UN agency to back a global plan to deal with the same issue.
The European Commission is willing to limit the scope of the EU scheme against airlines based outside the regional bloc, if the International Civil Aviation Organisation – which sets global aviation standards – endorses a global scheme to reduce carriers’ carbon dioxide emissions.
The EU ran into strong opposition from countries including the US, Brazil, China, India and Russia after last year bringing foreign as well as European airlines within the regional bloc’s carbon emissions trading scheme.
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