The UK Government has announced the presidency programme for COP26, confirming November 10 as transport day, which aims to “bring together leaders from across the sector to accelerate the transition to 100% zero emissions vehicles. Transport Day events will also galvanise action to decarbonise the harder to abate forms of transport: aviation and shipping.”
The government has also disclosed the creation of the International Aviation Climate Ambition Coalition, which is a new group of states that “want to meet the challenge of net zero for aviation, and are encouraging all states to do the same”. The Coalition will be launched at COP26 with an “ambitious and comprehensive declaration on aviation emissions”. The UK states that the coalition will “kick-start a year of increased collaboration between governments, with the near-term target of securing an ambitious long-term goal for international aviation emissions at the next Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization in September 2022”.