NEW DELHI: A country’s responsibility for offsetting greenhouse gas emissions should be on fixed on the basis its nationals zipping across the world — irrespective of the airline they do so on — and not on the number of passengers flown by airlines of that country. India has raised this demand at the United Nations’ aviation arm, International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), last week.
A team of top Indian aviation officials, led by minister H S Puri, proposed changes in ICAO’s “carbon offsetting and reduction scheme for international aviation” (CORSIA) program during its general assembly meeting in Montreal last week. “…under CORSIA…, emissions of each aircraft operator (airline) form the basis of the (mitigation of GHG emissions) scheme leaving the country totally out of it. (this)… does not appear to be justified,” India said in its working paper submitted to ICAO.
