ICAO establishes CO2 emission standards for aircraft

On July 12, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) achieved an important step in an effort to set a greenhouse gas emission standard for global civil aviation.

At the ongoing conference in Saint Petersburg-Russia, the ICAO Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) has reached consensus on the measurement system with different technologies to determine CO2 emissions. for all types of aircraft.

ICAO Council President, Roberto Kobeh González emphasized the new system of measuring CO2, newly agreed by ICAO member countries, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, to ensure the measurement of emissions of all New type of aircraft on a fair and transparent basis.

The system is an important technological advance that includes elements such as the fuselage shape, maximum takeoff weight, fuel combustion efficiency in three different flight modes.

The agreement reached at CAEP on a new CO ₂ measurement system allows ICAO member countries and observers to gather in CAEP to enter new stages to develop ICAO CO ₂ emission standards for machines fly in international civil aviation.

These new phases include the identification of certification procedures to support the new CO ₂ measurement system and the scope of application of the aircraft's CO ₂ emission standard.

ICAO affirmed that the new CO ₂ measuring system is a very important milestone achieved after long technological discussions between CAEP countries, airlines, aircraft manufacturers, and environmental organizations. Non-governmental schools and other partners are observers in the process of developing the Air emission standards.

Appropriate regulatory limits for aircraft emission standards will be considered on the basis of ICAO standards for technical feasibility, environmental benefits, economic cost effectiveness and related interactions.