Environmental protection, ICAO

The ICAO Council s Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) created a Market-Based Measures Task Force (MBMTF) with a mandate of scoping out several issues related to the use of market-based measures to address air emissions from the aviation sector. 

ICAO International Standards and recommended Practices - Environmental Protection -Annex 16 to the Convention on international Civil Aviation, Volume n. Aircraft Engine Emissions, Second Edition - 20 Nov 2008 - Start- und Landezyklus (Landing and Takeoff Cycle, LTO) (1993)... 

It must be noted that ICAO s Business Plan is driven by six Strategic Objectives Safety -Enhance global civil aviation safety Security - Enhance global civil aviatirai security Environmental Protection - Minimize the adverse effect of global civil aviatirai rai the enviromnent Efficiency - Enhance the efficiency of aviation operations Continuity - Maintain the continuity of aviation operations and Rule of Law - Strengthen law governing intematiraial civil aviatirai. 

The above notwithstanding, ICAO has been at the forefront of aviation and environmental activity as the global forum for aviadmi and has made vast strides over the past 3-4- years in bringing together a world divided by individual philosophies and interests in the field of aviation and environmental protection. As this article will enumerate, there has been much achieved by ICAO. 

Consolidated statement of continuing ICAO policies and practices related to environmental protection, Assembly Resolutions in Force (As of 28 September 2007), ICAO Doc 9902, 1-54 to 1-74. 

Supra, note 1. In December 2004, following a decision by the 35th Session of the ICAO Assembly, the Council of ICAO approved six Strategic Objectives for 2005-2010 They are safety security environmental protection efficiency continuity and rule of law. At the 37th Assembly of ICAO (2010) these strategic objectives were revised and only four remain safety security environmental protection and sustainability of air transport. 

Report of the Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection, Fifth Meeting, Montreal, Jan. 8-17, 2001, ICAO Doc 9777, CAEP/5 at lA-1. 

Of these, safety, security and environmental protection were heavily discussed at the 37th Session of the Assembly convened by the Intematimial Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal from 28 September to 8 October 2011. The Assembly was attended by a record 1,588 participants from 176 Member States and 40 international organizations involved in civil aviation, achieved important advancements in aviation safety and aviation security assuring even greater safety performance in the already safest and most secure mode of mass transport in the world. 

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