IATA sets 6 percent biofuels airline target for 2020; says governments must help with investment

In Canada, the CEO of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Giovanni Bisignani, said that the industry has set a 6 percent biofuels target for 2020, and would improve emissions by 1/5 percent per year between now and 2020.

The International Civil Aviation organisation (ICAO) High Level Meeting on International Aviation and Climate Change, which concluded in Montreal, set an annual 2 percent emissions reductions target, but IATA said that governments and oil companies would have to  assist the industry in building up sufficient capacity to meet the airlines’ targets.

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