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Aviation round-up the big six

  • Dentons
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  • European Union, Global, United Kingdom, USA
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  • January 15 2013

As a new year begins, Bill Gibson, a partner in the SNR Denton Aviation Group looks at six of the main legal developments in the aircraft finance and

EU political update: 3 - 7 September 2012

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • Australia, Czech Republic, European Union, Global, Ireland, Russia
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  • September 3 2012

On 22 August 2012, Russia became the 156th member of the WTO after 18 years of negotiations

ICAO emissions reductions efforts

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union, Global
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  • July 1 2012

On June 29, the International Civil Aviation Organization's Ad Hoc Working Group on Market-Based Measures is working on three options for a global, market-based system for reducing airlines' greenhouse gas emissions, in order to defuse industry and government tension over the unilateral creation of an EU aviation emissions trading system

EU technical support

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union, Global
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  • June 24 2012

European Union Commissioner Andris Piebalgs announced at the Rio20 summit June 20 that the European Union will create an EU Technical Assistance Facility, initially worth $62.6 million over the next two years to provide access to sustainable energy services to 500 million people by 2030

International

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, China, European Union, Global, United Kingdom
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  • May 13 2012

The European Chemical Industry Council announced May 8 that it will monitor its environmental sustainability by tracking indicators like greenhouse gas and acidifying gases emissions and waste generation

Short-lived pollutant coalition

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Colombia, European Union, Global, Japan, Nigeria, Norway, USA
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  • April 29 2012

Norway, Nigeria, Colombia, Japan, the European Commission, and the World Bank joined a coalition April 24 formed earlier this year by the United States and other countries to curb black carbon, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons

Recent statements highlight difficulty in achieving a global compromise on aviation emissions regulation

  • Sullivan & Worcester LLP
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  • European Union, Global
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  • March 26 2012

Since taking effect on January 1, 2012, the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (“EU-ETS”) has continued to be a hot button issue among the international aviation community

Global aviation emissions negotiations

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union, Global
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  • March 25 2012

Speaking at the annual Aviation and Environment Summit March 21, Mary Veronica Tovsak-Pleterski, director for European and International Carbon Markets with the European Commission’s Directorate General for Climate Action, said that the European Union is ready to secure a global deal on reducing air transit emissions, but that it will not suspend application of its Emissions Trading System to encourage a multilateral solution

Kyoto’s next commitment period suggested by EU

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union, Global
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  • March 18 2012

On March 9, all of the European Union’s member country environmental ministers, meeting at the EU Environment Council in Brussels, announced that the Kyoto Protocol’s second commitment period should run from January 1, 2013 until December 31, 2020

Non-EU countries oppose inclusion of emissions from airlines in EU ETS

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, Global
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  • March 8 2012

Following the preliminary court ruling that all aviation emissions would be regulated under the European Union (EU) Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), several non-EU countries have held talks to agree measures to oppose the inclusion of their airlines in the EU ETS

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