A UN panel has proposed long-sought greenhouse gas emissions standards for airliners and cargo planes.
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The International Civil Aviation Organization said the agreement reached by the agency’s environmental panel requires that new aircraft designs meet the standards beginning in 2020, and that designs already in production comply by 2023.
There is also a cut-off date of 2028 for the manufacture of planes that don’t comply with the standards. The standard must still be adopted by the agency’s 36-nation governing council, but substantive changes aren’t expected.
The standards would be the first ever to impose binding energy efficiency and carbon dioxide reduction targets for the aviation sector.
The standards are expected to reduce carbon emissions by more than 650 million tons between 2020 and 2040, equivalent to removing over 140 million cars from the road for a year.
The standards would require an average 4 per cent reduction in fuel consumption during the cruise phase of flight starting in 2028 when compared with planes delivered in 2015.
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