Climate-sceptic policies ‘imperil’ aviation decarbonisation by 2050: IATA

NEW DELHI: Climate-sceptic policies will “imperil” the success of decarbonisation of the aviation sector to which airlines have committed by 2050, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Sunday.

The emergence of leaders favouring fossil fuels, such as US President Donald Trump, and recent regulatory rollbacks, are “obviously a setback... it does imperil success on the 2050 horizon”, Marie Owens Thomsen, IATA´s senior vice president sustainability, told reporters. “But I don´t think it´s going to halt or reverse progress. I think it will just slow progress,” she said at the IATA annual industry conference in India.