On Friday 13 March, the NGO Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), which was concerned that the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council may be put under pressure by airlines to weaken the CORSIA system, appealed to the agency not to use COVID-19 as a pretext for diluting the global market-based measure but, in the interests of the climate, to listen instead to its technical advisers (see EUROPE B12434A24).
A new study carried out by the NGO supports this request: the study...