IATA: Airline emission tax is leading issue for new CEO Juniac

Winning global agreement on how the airline industry is charged for carbon emissions blamed for climate change will be the top item on Alexandre de Juniac’s agenda when he becomes director of the IATA this summer. “If we have a system of taxing carbon emissions, it’s got to be global -- it’s got to be applied across the board, not so that some zones pay and others don’t,” DeJuniac, the outgoing CEO of Air France-KLM Group, said. “You can’t have a system that penalizes some airlines and not others.” An assembly of the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Authority is scheduled for September, with the aim of delivering a goal to cap the industry’s emissions at 2020 levels. Aviation wasn’t included in last year’s Paris climate deal. <br/>