Environment

Less noise, lower fuel consumption and reduced emissions – the new efficient flight profile (EFP) concept delivers a range of positive impacts. The EFP concept facilitates continuous descent operations. Such descents result in landings with…

Plans to convene the world’s most ambitious climate leaders on December 12 - the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement - will be launched at the United Nations today. The announcement – at the Climate Change Roundtable to be hosted by the…

Summarizing the outcomes of an ICAO sustainability event last week, ICAO Council President Salvatore Sciacchitano stressed the need to seize the post-COVID recovery as a vital opportunity for aviation to build back better through…

The Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) is the first global market-based scheme that applies to a sector, and complements other aviation in-sector emissions reductions efforts such as technological…

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a significant decrease in domestic, regional, and international air traffic volumes. Before this crisis, ICAO declared that the implementation of Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) flight procedures was a…

Imagine a project so massive that it employed one-tenth of the world’s population. This monument to global cooperation would bring together almost every culture on the planet, driving not just social development but peace and prosperity…