ICAO deal: Soaring success or timid take-off?

Madeleine Cuff
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The aviation deal is a step in the right direction, but needs an explicit link to the Paris Agreement goals and a credible offsetting system to really set the industry on a climate-friendly flight path

What a week. Hot on the heels of the momentous ratification of the Paris Agreement - confirming that the landmark deal will enter into force next month - environmental campaigners and journalists once...

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