25.10.10

Aviation is responsible for 4.9% of man-made climate change. In 1997 the parties to the Kyoto Protocol agreed that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from international aviation should be 'limited' or 'reduced' by Annex 1 (developed) countries) working through ICAO. In the thirteen years since Kyoto, emissions from aviation have grown faster than any other mode of transport and are expected to continue to grow in the future.

ICAO is failing to fulfil its obligations under Kyoto as well as its responsibilities to future generations. ICAO and the aviation industry claim to be in the lead on climate change. But on the contrary, they are grounded without a credible flight plan.

'Grounded: How ICAO failed to tackle aviation and climate change and what should happen now' is published to coincide with the ICAO Triennial Assembly, Montreal

Dings, J. (ed.) (2010). 'Grounded: How ICAO failed to tackle aviation and climate change and what should happen now'