The United States has pledged to make public all of its position papers submitted for the upcoming international meetings on aviation and climate change and…
Category: International Civil Aviation Organization
By Toby McIntosh Agendas and meeting summaries provide only limited transparency unless the documents discussed and the agreements reached are also disclosed. This significant relationship…
By Toby McIntosh The International Civil Aviation Organization has taken a significant step toward more transparency by publishing summaries of its closed Council meetings. In…
By Toby McIntosh About half of United Nations agencies hold closed meetings of their key decision-making bodies, according to the survey of 27 UN bodies…
By Toby McIntosh The United States is continuing to withhold about $2 million from the International Civil Aviation Organization because of “continuing concerns” that ICAO…
By Toby McIntosh The International Civil Aviation Organization does not make public a calendar of its committee meetings, nor are the meetings open to observe.…
By Toby McIntosh The adoption of virtual meeting technology to conduct meetings at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) does not mean sharing screens with…
The Secretariat of the International Civil Aviation Organizations “has encouraged” the ICAO governing Council “to consider permitting greater public access to its discussions while they…
By Toby McIntosh Two United Nations agencies have taken significant steps into the new world of virtual meetings — the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and…
By Toby McIntosh The US government approves of steps taken by the governing Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization to protect whistleblowers, but the…