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Aircraft and transport. ICAO Secretary General welcomes UE ETS moratorium

Montreal, Canada - "It was a source of concern for us"

Raymond Benjamin, Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) welcomed the decision of the European Union to postpone the scheme to control airlines emissions, the so-called ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme), which arrived during this week (AVIONEWS). "Given the opposition of a wide majority of countries, [the European Union scheme] was a source of concern for us", declared...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1147419
Rome, Italy, 11/16/2012 15:53
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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