My last blog from this year’s summit, and I’m writing just as the press conference is coming to an end. I’ll leave others to comment on the main messages from the Summit, but I just wanted to give my personal impressions of the last couple of days. There’s an interesting article in the UK’s Daily Telegraph today which comments that Summit’s are ‘Soul Destroying’. That might be the case when a bunch of politicians get together, but that’s far from my experience at our Environment Summit. Yes, we are in a very difficult economic situation - latest traffic statistics from CANSO show further declines in Jan and Feb - and yes, the environmental challenges we face are significant. But the story of the past two days has been that aviation people make things happen. Unlike, dare I say it, politicians, who tend to talk about making things happen. It’s inaction that is soul destroying – perhaps that’s a lesson the G20 summit should learn.

 

Chris