CORSIA Compliance
Purchasing a carbon credit does not satisfy a CORSIA obligation by itself. Eligible units must be cancelled for the correct compliance purpose, the cancellation evidence must be compiled, and the operator's Emissions Unit Cancellation Re...
CORSIA Compliance
ICAO's CORSIA Central Registry is a State reporting infrastructure, not a carbon-credit trading venue. Understanding that distinction prevents operators from confusing ICAO transparency reporting with the program registries where eligibl...
CORSIA Compliance
Airlines report emissions annually but reconcile CORSIA offsetting requirements over three-year compliance cycles. That timing difference creates a procurement decision: wait for the final obligation or accumulate eligible supply before...
CORSIA Compliance
Missing flight or fuel records are a normal systems risk and a serious verification issue if they are handled informally. CORSIA provides defined approaches for estimating data gaps, but the airline still needs controls that identify, qu...
CORSIA Carbon Markets
ICAO approves emissions-unit programmes subject to defined scopes and exclusions. The practical procurement mistake is to treat programme approval as blanket approval for every project, methodology, vintage and unit in the registry.
CORSIA Carbon Markets
CORSIA eligibility is narrower than a carbon program's brand name. An airline has to check the approved programme, compliance period, vintage, methodology or activity exclusions, host-country authorization requirements and the specific u...
CORSIA Compliance
The least efficient time to discover a broken fuel-data trail is after the verifier has started testing. A pre-audit should reproduce the path from representative flights to the final emissions total and identify unsupported adjustments...
CORSIA Compliance
Groups operating several fleets, AOCs or legal entities can create CORSIA errors through inconsistent operator attribution and duplicate or omitted flight records. The reporting architecture should follow the operator boundary accepted b...
CORSIA Carbon Markets
Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement matters to airline buyers because CORSIA eligible units can require host-country authorization and corresponding adjustments. Treasury and sustainability teams therefore need to understand both the carb...
CORSIA Carbon Markets
Host-country Letters of Authorization have become a gating item for parts of the CORSIA market because they support the international transfer and corresponding-adjustment process. An airline buying forward credits should understand what...
CORSIA Carbon Markets
A corresponding adjustment is intended to prevent the same mitigation outcome from being claimed both by an airline using a credit and by the host country toward its climate accounting. For CORSIA procurement, the authorization and accou...
CORSIA Carbon Markets
ICAO's Technical Advisory Body assesses emissions-unit programmes against the CORSIA eligibility criteria and recommends whether they should supply units to a given compliance period. For airlines, TAB decisions are market events because...