‘Africa needs to formulate an approach to carbon emissions’

Although it is a small player in the global pollution league, Africa still has its role to play in “The Environmental Challenge”, according to Chris Zweigenthal, CEO of the Airlines Association of Southern Africa (AASA). “While the European Union (EU) battles the rest of the world with the implementation of its emission trading scheme (the ETS),” he told FTW, “Africa does not appear to have taken a position on its approach to the environmental problem and in particular as far as aviation is concerned, the reduction of carbon emissions. “There is an acknowledgement that ‘we have to do something’ but that ‘something’ has not been clearly defined by African leaders.”