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  • Charting a Flightpath Toward Cleaner Skies with EDF’s New High-Integrity Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) Handbook

    August 22, 2022

    Climate 411: Aviation
  • UN aviation agency sets a new standard for sustainable flight by adopting critical fuels criteria

    November 17, 2021

    Climate 411: Aviation
  • UN aviation agency has an opportunity to bolster sustainable flight by adopting critical fuels criteria

    March 4, 2021

    Climate 411: Aviation
  • CORSIA: No, the ICAO Council can’t legally change CORSIA’s rules

    June 9, 2020

    Climate 411: Aviation
  • CORSIA: 5 reasons why the ICAO Council shouldn’t move now to rewrite the rules of its aviation climate program

    June 9, 2020

    Climate 411: Aviation
  • CORSIA: Industry-sought rule change threatens aviation climate program

    May 21, 2020

    Climate 411: Aviation
  • California’s experience with buyer liability shows how aviation can help ensure environmental integrity

    May 1, 2020

    Climate 411: Aviation
  • Three opportunities for the UN’s aviation agency to deliver climate action

    September 25, 2019

    Climate 411: Aviation
  • Study: Consumers willing to pay carbon offsets for air travel

    September 25, 2019

    Climate 411: Aviation
  • There’s progress on climate standards for international aviation, but more needed

    May 20, 2019

    Climate 411: Aviation
  • What role do emissions from international shipping and aviation play in the global climate?

    May 6, 2019

    Climate 411: Aviation
  • Will governments disappoint again on carbon accounting at upcoming aviation meetings?

    February 4, 2019

    Climate 411: Aviation
  • Could aviation loopholes swallow climate progress?

    December 11, 2018

    Climate 411: Aviation
  • 7 reasons avoiding double counting of emissions reductions helps countries, and the environment

    September 26, 2018

    Climate 411: Aviation
  • Once is enough: how climate negotiators can protect the environmental integrity of the Paris Agreement by avoiding double counting

    September 5, 2018

    Climate 411: Aviation
  • CDM design flaws can taint CORSIA, but supply from small developing countries could provide real emissions reductions

    July 12, 2018

    Climate 411: Aviation
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