ICAO Council reaches decision on aviation emissions offsetting for CORSIA

ICAO Council adopted (27-Jun-2018​) a new volume to Annex 16 of the Chicago Convention, making "important headway" on key international standards supporting the planned timeline for the introduction of the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). ICAO Council president Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu said gaining agreement on Volume IV to Annex 16 is "critical to helping States and airlines to operationalize CORSIA per its established deadlines". Dr Aliu stressed the agreement especially pertains to its monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) scheme, "which describes in detail what has to be done, by whom", starting with the collection of information on international aviation CO2 emissions by airlines as of Jan-2019. Dr Aliu further noted the CORSIA MRV provisions were tested before adoption, with the support of Germany and the active participation of six additional states and 10 airlines. [more - original PR]