Finally, after 15 years of negotiating, the world's governments have agreed a deal that means all airlines must join a global scheme to cut carbon emissions.
The EU is claiming that it's own Emissions Trading Scheme (They wanted all airlines flying into Europe to pay a carbon tax) has forced the lengthy negotiations over this issue to head. Whatever.
The problem is that details won't be agreed until 2016 and the result won't actually come into effect until 2020. So that'll be 22 years to come up with an emissions cutting plan for airlines. Whoopee do!
(More detail here)
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