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  • 2025-09-20 20:30

    Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry

    Exclusive: Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at recent ICAO meeting, thinktank says Damian Carrington Environment editor Fri 19 Sep 2025 01.00 EDT The UN aviation organisation has been captured by the industry, a report has concluded, leading to the urgent action required to tackle the sector’s high carbon emissions being blocked. Industry
  • 2024-08-08 21:09

    Air cargo players want ‘cohesion and consistency’ in how aviation reports emissions

    By Charlotte Goldstone 12/08/2024 Current CO2 air cargo emission calculating methodology has been compared to the VW emissions scandal, with a lack of standardisation allowing passenger ‘greenwashing’ at the expense of cargo.  The disparity between IATA and ICAO’s baseline figures for calculating air cargo emissions could be resulting in false sustainability data, making passenger operations
  • 2023-04-24 15:13

    Influence Map – Aviation Report, October 2022

    How corporate interests influence global climate policy at the UN agency for aviation October 2022 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Glossary 5 Background 6 Governance and Transparency on Climate at ICAO 9 Industry Representation at ICAO 15 Climate Policy and Industry Influence at ICAO 17 Appendices 31 It is noted that logos of industry associations and the UN International Civil Aviation Organization are occasionally utilized in the graphics associated with the analysis in this report, as is common practice in public facing releases of this kind. This in no way implies agreement and/or endorsement by the entities concerned with the report’s content. CORPORATE CAPTURE AND THE UN INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION OCTOBER 2022 PAGE 2 Table 1: Comparing transparency and industry influence over UN climate negotiations Graph comparing transparency rules and practices and industry influence at ICAO with other key UN climate negotiation bodies: the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and International Maritime Organization (IMO). INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION (ICAO) AVIATION NO NO NO NO NO NO NO PARTLY NO 31% INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO) SHIPPING NO NO PARTLY YES PARTLY YES PARTLY PARTLY YES 25% UN CLIMATE GOVERNANCE BODY CAN ALL DELEGATES PARTICIPATE IN CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS WITHOUT SIGNING NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS? ARE DELEGATES PERMITTED TO SHARE CLIMATE NEGOTIATION DETAILS WITH EXTERNAL GROUPS SUCH AS THE MEDIA? SECTORS COVERED BY UN BODY ARE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS EXCLUDED FROM CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS? ARE CORPORATIONS EXCLUDED FROM STATE DELEGATIONS DURING CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS? ARE ALL KEY CLIMATE NEGOTIATION DOCUMENTS AND REPORTS MADE…
  • 2022-10-07 19:33

    Study Finds Outsized Corporate Influence on UN Aviation Emissions Talks

    The supporting report can be found here: https://seatacnoise.info/im_aviation_report_10-22/
  • 2022-10-07 19:24

    Corporate Capture and the UN International Civil Aviation Organization

    See coverage in Politico and Eco Business. How corporate interests influence global climate policy at the UN body for aviation New analysis finds the aviation industry has an outsized influence over global climate rules for the sector amid limited public scrutiny, according to a detailed analysis of corporate engagement and transparency rules at the UN’s aviation agency. The
  • 2020-11-03 12:15

    How a 1940s treaty set airlines on a path to high emissions and low regulation

    Before the pandemic, aviation was on course to be the UK’s most polluting sector and produce as much as 22% of global emissions by 2050. The industry is suffering from low demand due to coronavirus restrictions, but without meaningful policy changes, flight numbers and emissions are expected to return to pre-COVID-19 levels by 2024. When accounting for emissions, aviation is
  • 2011-12-29 20:10

    Obama’s Climate Betrayal

    Elizabeth Kolbert Some international disputes are significant for symbolic reasons, others for substantive ones. The current conflict between the United States and the European Union over airline-emissions limits is both. Unfortunately this means that the U.S. is doubly on the wrong side. The Obama Administration ought to be applauding the Europeans. Instead it’s threatening a