A Common Approach to Aviation Emissions Trading

Development summary

Andreas Hardeman’s article in Air and Space Law examines aviation emissions trading and emerging regulations within ICAO and Europe, including whether emissions from aircraft operators of other states may be integrated into a trading scheme without mutual agreement. The source concludes that, under the 1944 Chicago Convention, the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, there are fundamental doubts about inclusion without mutual agreement when emissions occur or originate outside the territory of the scheme’s parties.