Rising to the environmental challenge to aviation: The need for a global solution

In this paper, Vijay Poonoosamy, chair of IATA's Industry Affairs Committee, examines some of the issues around the European Union's controversial Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), most notably the need for a global system that will actually serve to reduce emissions - rather than increase international conflict.

Even if aviation accounts for 2% of man-made CO2 emissions and even though today's aircraft are 70% more fuel efficient than 40 years ago, we know that we are part of a growing global problem and that we must thus be part of the global solution.