The Financial Times (no links to letters) today also has a letter from Jos Dings, the director of the European Federation for Transpor and Environment in Brussels, calling on Tony Blair to block a proposed resolution being proposed by the US at the upcoming Montreal meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization. According to Mr. Dings, the resolution "will have the effect of blocking member states from implementing their own policies in this area" and "severely hamper" EU efforts to include aviation emissions in the global warming efforts underway there. "Now is the time for Mr. Blair to show leadership by building a coalition of the willing to reject the move. Only then will European governments, and indeed other members of the ICAO that take climate policy seriously, be able to choose the most appropriate response to the climate threat posed by the rapidly growing aviation industry." Dings closes with the ringing (sorry, couldn't help it) statement that "it is not the time for the US to be, once again, dictating climate policy to countries that have already woken up to the danger." Now, given EU reluctance to negotiate real open-skies agreements with the US, the UK and French subsidies to the highly polluting Concorde, and their appalling record on subsidizing Airbus, could it be possible that a climate change policy on aviation emissions might, possibly, just maybe, do something for Airbus at Boeing's expense? I don't know, but I hope the US delegates to the ICAO meeting do.