UN: Aviation emissions plans delayed to 2013

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Industry hails 'perfect flight' as evidence of green progress, but further delays to global deal look set to anger EU

Draft proposals to tackle the carbon impact of aviation look set to be delayed until March 2013, according to the head of the UN body overseeing long-running negotiations to deliver a global deal to curb...

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