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Non-gendered campaigner Christie Elan-Cane has fought for social and legal recognition for 30 years.
A long-running legal fight for ‘X’ gender markers on passports will be heard by the UK Supreme Court in July.
The case, which was first heard by the High Court in 2018, is brought by campaigner Christie Elan-Cane, who has fought for legal and social recognition as a person of non-gendered identity for almost three decades.
Applicants for a UK passport must indicate whether they are male or female in a signed declaration. Elan-Cane argues that it is discriminatory for the UK Home Office to refuse to offer passports with an ‘X’ gender marker for people who are not male or female, such as non-binary people.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just introduced its Rule on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Aircraft, which is the first piece of national legislation to impose regulations on the aviation industry. But although the laws are long overdue, they unfortunately don’t appear set to make much of a difference to the existing status quo.
That’s because the regulations have been lifted almost wholesale from the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) guidelines. As such, most aircraft the world over already comply with those rules, since doing so is a prerequisite of air travel. Worst still, the EPA’s new legislation only applies to new models – even though no new designs are in the pipeline and aren’t expected to be for 10 years.
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As the world begins to emerge from lockdowns and secondary and tertiary waves, the temporary lull in emissions caused by aviation is set to come back in full force. Before the pandemic, sustainability was the industry’s biggest challenge. The standard way of going green has been to purchase carbon offset credits. However, with United Airlines declaring it is investing millions of dollars into carbon capture technology, how do these solutions compare?
Carbon offset and carbon capturing are two different things, and both will be instrumental in decreasing aviation’s impact on climate change. Photo: Getty Images
Carbon offsetting alone is not enough, Kirby says
Aviation trade war fears recede as UN looks to broker emissions deal UN-backed meetings are being held to produce a global agreement on curbing airline emissions. They follow a US decision to reject Brussels’ ruling to apply its emissions trading scheme (ETS) to foreign airlines both when using EU countries’ airports and while flying in non-EU airspace. The ruling led to murmurings that this could cause a trade war. Alternative emissions policies are being worked on by a 15-nation panel of the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), which is gathering for a third time before early April. Under the ETS, airlines would trade credits for pollution from flights under a system similar to the cap-and-trade proposals urged by US environmentalists. The EU added that airlines should cut emissions by 5% by 2020.