Ahead of the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) global meeting at the end of September 2016, where China, the USA, the European Union (EU) and another 16 countries must agree on a cap emissions of all international flights at 2020 levels, the EU declares it plans to implement its own system between 2018 and 2020 to meet with its overall greenhouse gas emissions mitigation target.
Since 2012 emissions from all flights from, to and within the European Economic Area (EEA) (28 EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) are included in the EU emissions trading system (EU ETS). The ICAO agreed in 2013 to develop a global market-based mechanism to address international aviation emissions by 2016 and apply it by 2020. To allow time for the international negotiations, the EU ETS scheme was suspended to flights to and from non-European countries and for operators with low emissions for the 2013-2016.
The new ICAO global deal, which is to be concluded at the end of the month, would be voluntary between 2021 and 2026 and only become mandatory from 2027 for the world's largest CO2 emitters. Aviation was excluded from COP21 agreement in December 2015.
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