NAAPE Wants Climate Change Committee for Aviation Industry

Given the consequential impact of climate change on society, especially on aviation, the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE), has appealed to the federal government, through the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development, to urgently set up a Climate Change Committee for the aviation industry. 

NAAPE said the committee would serve as a platform where relevant stakeholders and Union representatives shall come up with industrial mitigation strategies. 

The call was made in a communiqué issued at the end of the 2024 National Executive Council Meeting/Symposium of NAAPE, held on the 6th of October, 2024, at Kenem Suites, Abuja.

At the NEC meeting with the theme: ‘The Imperative of Unionism In A Struggling Economy’, chaired by the Director General, CAA, Capt Chris Najomo, NAAPE also acknowledged the enormous impact posed by Climate Change on aviation jobs. The NEC, therefore, demanded that the government set the machinery in motion to amend the Climate Change Act to include representatives of workers (Unions) and Employers organisation in the Governing Structures of the National Council on Climate Change.