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It didn’t get nearly as much play in the US as it probably should have, but about a month ago, 350 people got together in Geneva for the Aviation & Environment Summit 2009. This topic has been front and center over in Europe, but it has yet to reach such status here in the US. Still, it’s a topic that will continue to grow in importance, so we should all be paying attention.

The team over there took extensive video of the conference, but I would recommend starting with this summary to get a general idea of what happened.

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ATW Daily News - 236 days 13 hours 38 minutes ago

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Financial Times - 55 days 19 hours 33 minutes ago

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