It may not be perfect but at least the agreement reached by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) on Montreal on Thursday 6 October allowing the aviation sector to contribute to global efforts to address climate change is there, in the view of the European Commission, immediately welcoming it as a landmark agreement. Environmentalists, however, were less fulsome in their welcome.
The agreement concluded among the 195 parties to ICAO is a global market-based measure that aims...