SOUTH PACIFIC’S TUVALU IS LATEST COUNTRY TO JOIN ICAO
November 1st, 2017
THE PACIFIC island state of Tuvalu has become the 192nd member state of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), with a UN agency note stressing how this archipelago is vulnerable to climate change-prompted sea level rises, which ICAO fights with its CORSIA carbon offset scheme. Tuvalu is served by Funafuti International Airport, in Funafuti, Tuvalu’s capital. Welcoming the accession, ICAO president Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu said: “Aviation is particularly crucial to the sustainable economic prosperity and resilience of small island developing ...
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