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Aviation industry delegates outnumbered those from green groups by 10 to one at the previous conference of the UN’s committee on aviation environmental protection (CAEP), an analysis has found.
Other recent meetings held by CAEP’s parent body, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), were sponsored by large fossil fuel companies and airlines, including Saudi Aramco and Etihad. Critics accuse the ICAO of having been captured by the industry, resulting in slow efforts to tackle the climate crisis by reducing the carbon emissions from aircraft.
The next meeting of CAEP begins on Monday but there is no public information on its agenda or the people who will be running the conference. The ICAO has been criticised for a lack of transparency that contrasts sharply with, for example, the UN’s climate body.
The ICAO does not routinely make its meeting documents freely available, instead charging hundreds of dollars for password-protected copies. Neither the media nor the public can attend CAEP conferences, and observer delegates are required to sign non-disclosure agreements that incur “unlimited financial liability”.
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The UN aviation body’s climate negotiations are a masterclass in regulatory capture. Industry puppeteers outnumber environmental voices tenfold, drafting rules that prioritize profit over planetary survival. Fossil fuel sponsors like Saudi Aramco and Shell bankroll these closed-door charades, ensuring “sustainable aviation” remains an oxymoron.
Transparency? A myth. Delegates sign NDAs with unlimited liability—corporate gag orders masquerading as procedure**. Meanwhile, the ICAO’s offsetting schemes are theater**, a carbon shell game that lets airlines expand endlessly while pretending to cut emissions.
This isn’t governance—it’s a cartel. Aviation’s growth-at-all-costs dogma ignores the math: efficiency gains can’t offset doubling traffic. But why bother with science when you’ve got lobbyists writing the playbook? The system’s rigged, and we’re all breathing the consequences.
What do you mean capitalism is doing capitalist things?!? That so unexpected and completely unheard of!
It’s almost as if our government is against regulations as a whole, and this administration is making it even worse!