Global Aviation Dialogues: crucial elements omitted from latest MBM draft proposal

by Kelsey PerlmanAviationPosted on Comments are Disabled

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) organized five Global Aviation Dialogues (GLADs) around the world to discuss the latest draft proposal on a market based measure to curb emissions from international aviation. The dialogues came to a close on 8 April, but there are already worrying signs that important elements around ambition, emission unit quality criteria and double counting of these units may not be adequately addressed. If left untreated, these missing elements would lead to a toothless proposal that will do little for the environment.

Watch This! NGO Newsletter #14: 2016, a key year to pressure aviation to do their fair share!

by Kelsey PerlmanAviation, Global marketsPosted on Comments are Disabled

Scroll down for French and Spanish Following the Paris Agreement, 2016 will be another crucial year for climate as countries are set to adopt the first ever agreement on limiting the emissions of the aviation sector. So far however, the proposal is far from being ambitious. It is up to the civil society to raise …

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Leave poor land-use alone, he has his own problems

by Kelsey PerlmanGlobal markets, Land use and forestryPosted on Comments are Disabled

Land use has always been a tricky subject, complicated even more by the fact that countries are putting land use into their INDCs, without clear measures and accounting rules. If, as with some parties, accounting rules hide CO2 released when harvesting, emissions will go unnoticed and the true amount of emission reductions achieved by land …

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WATCH THIS! NGO Newsletter #13: Beware Hot Air: Recommendations for Paris 2015

by Kelsey PerlmanGlobal marketsPosted on Comments are Disabled

Scroll down for French and Spanish An essential issue that must be tackled to ensure ambition in the Paris agreement this December is the fate of 11 billion ‘hot air’ credits built up through countries submitting low climate pledges and lack of environmental standards in market mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol (KP). While the solution …

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