The General Aviation Manufacturers Association, together with the International Business Aviation Council and a long list of its members, today announced a series of measures to dramatically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.
"The program is consistent with the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) proposal for global aviation sectoral management of targets and monitoring of emissions," GAMA said today. The announcement added that business aviation has improved fuel efficiency by 40 percent over as many years and that the community's carbon emissions represent about two percent of all aviation and .04 percent of the world's carbon emissions attributable to human activity.
Now the community will take aggressive steps to improve further and has pledged to achieve carbon-neutral growth and a two-percent-per-year improvement in fuel efficiency by 2020 as well as a 50 percent reduction of carbon emissions by 2050 over those in 2005. GAMA and its partners predict the reduction will be achieved mainly by technology, infrastructure and operational improvements through such programs as NextGen, alternative fuels and market-based measures that were not stipulated. The groups also called for the granting of sectoral responsibility for all of aviation to ICAO. The groups cited Steve Ridolfi, president of Bombardier's business aircraft division, and Bombardier itself, for leadership and "strong technical support" on the issues.
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