Sentences with phrase «reducing aviation emissions»

The U.S. recently hosted representatives of 15 countries to discuss global solutions for reducing aviation emissions.

The draft of the text currently under negotiation passes responsibility for reducing aviation emissions to the International Civil Aviation Authority, a specialised agency of the UN.

«While we continue to work internationally to seek a global agreement on reducing aviation emissions, each country must take action domestically,» the chancellor said in his pre-Budget report (PBR) statement today.

The American Lung Association supports emissions requirements for aircraft that are comparable in stringency to other mobile source emissions standards and supports measures, including regulation, to reduce aviation emissions.

Not exact matches

These advances are steppingstones toward realizing Flight Path 2050, the European Union's aggressive goal to reduce the aviation sector's nitrous oxide emissions by 90 percent, noise pollution by 65 percent and carbon dioxide emissions by 75 percent by 2050.

Reducing emissions is a challenge for the aviation sector.

Compensating elsewhere for growth in aviation emissions seems a reasonable option until new technologies are available to reduce aviation's own emissions.

And second, how do we safely handle a dramatic increase in traffic while also reducing aviation's greenhouse gas emissions?

Reduce petroleum consumption and emissions by measures to improve transportation system efficiency across all modes, for example by modernizing the aviation system.

We emphasize the importance of expeditious discussions in the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for limiting or reducing GHG emissions in the international aviation and maritime sectors, bearing in mind the distinct processes under the UNFCCC toward an agreed outcome for the post-2012 period.

National governments, subnational governments, the aviation industry, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society must do more to harness viable technological and policy solutions to sharply reduce the sector's emissions by 2050 and fully decarbonize within the second half of the century.

Examples of this type of action include making decisions in the Montreal Protocol to reduce HFCs and getting the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to address emissions from the aviation sector.

They are also negotiating REDD and other approaches to reduce emissions from international aviation.

How would a carbon tax on aviation fuel lead to reduced emissions in that sector?

NextGen should also reduce the aviation industry's environmental impact, saving more than 1.4 billion gallons of fuel from air traffic operations alone, and cutting carbon emissions by nearly 14 million tons by 2018, the FAA says

The agreement uses aviation emissions levels in 2020 as a benchmark and aims to reduce growth above that level by 80 % until 2035.

This objective can only be fulfilled if the aviation industry, a top ten global polluter, contributes its fair share in reducing emissions rapidly.

This flyer discusses how the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) work to reduce the impact of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from international aviation and international maritime transport.

On the opening day of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) high level meeting in Montreal, 64 environmental organisations and Members of the European Parliament call for the aviation sector to develop a robust tool to reduce their emissions in line with the Paris agreement.

ICAO's Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) is designed to complement the basket of mitigation measures the air transport community is already pursuing to reduce CO2 emissions from international aviation.

This activity report briefly presents the activities implemented by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) respectively to reduce the impact of GHG emissions from international aviation on the global climate and to improve energy efficiency and reduce GHG emissions from international maritime transport.

Decisions could be taken in Copenhagen to reduce emissions and raise money from international aviation and shipping or the auctioning of allowances.

New research published today (Wednesday 1 June 2005) by Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and carried out by the UK Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, shows that unless the EU and the UK Government takes action to reduce the growth in aviation emissions the industry's emissions will wipe out all the savings that other sectors of the economy could make.

The European Commission is currently investigating the merits of bringing intra-EU aviation into the existing EU emissions trading scheme (ETS) its key policy to reduce climate emissions from the sector.

$ 400 / ton carbon tax needed to curb aviation emissions $ 400 / ton carbon tax needed to curb aviation emissions mongabay.com September 4, 2007 European Union proposals to reduce the climate impact of aviation...

The US Environmental Protection Agency recently acknowledged the role of aviation emissions in causing global warming, and said it will develop rules in line with ICAO regulation to reduce emissions from the industry, as it has done for vehicles and power plants.

There is one other way to cut aviation emissions: reduce demand — or, at the very least, reduce the growth in demand.

(Sec. 753) Requires the EPA Administrator and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to study and report to Congress on: (1) the impact of aircraft emissions on air quality in nonattainment areas; (2) ways to promote fuel conservation measures for aviation; and (3) opportunities to reduce air traffic inefficiencies that increase fuel burn and emissions.

In Durban, parties should move forward on the establishment of mechanisms in the shipping and aviation sectors in a way that reduces emissions, generates finance, and ensures no burdens and costs on developing countries.

Efforts at reducing greenhouse gases from the global aviation industry might mean that airlines buy offsets, including forestry credits, to offset emissions from 2020.

He also asserts that the US approach for reducing carbon emissions may be different from the EU's because the US «aviation systems have widely varying traffic patterns.»

We already have a good way of massively reducing our CO2 emissions (far more than even banning aviation altogether would achieve)-- namely replacing coal - and gas - fired power stations with nuclear ones.

Letting aviation industry continue to increase its emissions while others have to reduce them is not only unfair, it is driving dangerous climate change that we have committed to fight under the Paris Agreement.

Flights within the EU are also included in the EU ETS, but — unlike other sectors — aviation is not expected to annually reduce its emissions.

These initiatives put aviation on a path to address its climate impact, but are heavily opposed by the industry, which demands continued exemptions from such efforts to reduce the sector's greenhouse gas emissions.

Europe now has the opportunity to improve aviation pollution rules by asking airlines to pay for and reduce their emissions like everyone else.

New Innovations May Help Reduce Aviation Emissions - Eventually I've lost count of the number of times that TreeHugger has written about the aviation industry's vulnerability to high oil prices or the interconnections between flying and climate change.

This report develops a national research agenda for reducing CO2 emissions from commercial aviation.

«The pressing need for the UK to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions significantly now means that all available tools will need to be deployed in the problematic growth area of aviation.

The Community and its Member States shall continue to seek an agreement on global measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from aviation.