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Controversial draft agreement signals that key industrialised nations will support global scheme to raise climate funds from aviation and shipping

Negotiations with industry body ongoing as UN-backed regulator calls for two per cent a year improvements in fuel efficiency

Air New Zealand boss brands EU emission trading scheme a "money-grabbing" tactic and criticises Copenhagen's "bureaucratic circus"

British Airways chief, Willie Walsh, says the industry can meet the 2050 target through a emissions trading scheme and improvements in aviation technology

IATA pledges to ensure global emissions peak by 2020 as air travel sector lends its voice to campaign for meaningful Copenhagen deal

Improved aircraft design and air traffic management leads to three per cent cut in emissions since 2000

It may have just broken the world record for solar powered flight, but the engineering firm reckons commercially viable manned flight remains "highly unlikely"

EU reaches compromise deal that should see aviation included in emissions trading scheme from 2012

European Parliament seeking pact to head off threat of legal action from US carriers over plans to extend emission trading scheme to cover aviation