Europe has long been engaged in political dialogue worldwide, to collectively determine the ambitious objective of decarbonising aviation. It is committed to ICAO’s “No Country left Behind” Initiative and contributes to its implementation.
The support includes the implementation of new standards and initiatives which require developing new technical capabilities and processes as well as addressing new areas of knowledge within a short timeframe to deploy across a number of organisations. This becomes more demanding when the initiatives require new sets of skills, addresses new areas of knowledge, or requires deployment across a number of organisations in a short timeframe. The deployment of rapidly evolving technologies and their enabling policies also necessitate feedback loops at all levels, thereby permitting the adjustment of the deployment of those policy frameworks to achieve the intended objectives. These factors are especially true for environmental protection initiatives in civil aviation.
International Cooperation initiatives facilitate engagement with Partner States in addressing those challenges by sharing knowledge and in-field experience of mutual benefit as well as the provision of resources. This collaborative effort is also a way to strengthen institutional ties and to enhance working relations with Partner States, thereby making it an additional key element in the basket of measures to achieve environmental goals such as net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050 and to ensure that “No Country is Left Behind”.
