IATA welcomes ICAO council decision on CORSIA – ZAWYA

IATA welcomes ICAO council decision on CORSIA – ZAWYA

IATA welcomes ICAO council decision on CORSIA | ZAWYA MENA Edition HomeArticleIATA welcomes ICAO council decision on CORSIA In 2022, the ICAO Assembly will consider if further amendments are necessary to address the impacts of COVID-19 to ensure the successful implementation of the scheme.    (Geneva) The International Air Transport Association (IATA) welcomes the decision by the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to use 2019 as a baseline for the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). In 2022, the ICAO Assembly will consider if further amendments are necessary to address the impacts of COVID-19 to ensure the successful implementation of the scheme.Airlines are committed to reducing net emissions to half 2005 levels by 2050. This commitment is unchanged. CORSIA is a vital step in that direction, enabling carbon-neutral growth that will stabilize net emissions from international aviation at 2019 levels (580 million tonnes of carbon).Originally, the CORSIA baseline calculation was agreed to be an average of 2019 and 2020 emissions.  The ongoing and unprecedented COVID-19 crisis has seen a precipitous drop in demand for air transport of more than half compared with 2019. As a result, the CORSIA baseline would have been severely skewed if