As the ICAO General Assembly opens in Montreal (27 September - 7 October), 90 NGOs have criticised the weakness of the text that is being negotiated to involve the international air travel sector in the fight against climate change.
The offsetting system for carbon emissions from other sectors, which the NGOs say is largely admitted as being a bad solution, is of great concern to the NGOs. In a joint statement, NGOs from North and South, be it environmental, development, defence of...