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• [New] Domestic regulatory instruments to reduce GHG emissions (CO 2 Emissions Standard for airplanes and CORSIA) are drafted and targeted for publication, and will align with the ICAO international standards.
• [New] Canada's implementation of ICAO's CO 2 Emissions Standard for airplanes will incentivize the adoption of more fuel efficient technologies by manufacturers.
• [New] Canada will be implementing the CO 2 Emissions Standard for airplanes, which targets domestic and international emissions, and the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, which targets international emissions only.
• [New] Five airports would serve as testing environments to study technologies and other systems that could both detect and mitigate risks of drones flying too close to manned aircraft.
• [New] Beijing has over the past year repeatedly used its military might to threaten the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which it claims - flying fighter jets into its airspace and staging invasion drills.
• [New] Scotland's Edinburgh Airport will soon start service of the first direct flight between China and Scotland via Hainan Airlines.
• [New] The rocket - which Elon Musk hopes will carry humans to Mars one day - is the third test flight to fail.
• [New] FedEx will build on its successful FedEx Fuel Sense initiatives designed to reduce fuel consumption in its aircraft.
• [New] Any fight to destroy the Chinese IADS is a fight to destroy ground based missile launchers - missile launchers that will be located on mainland Chinese soil.
• [New] The rocket attack was the first since the US struck Iran-aligned militia targets along the Iraq-Syria border last week, killing one militiaman and stoking fears of another cycle of tit-for-tat attacks as happened last year.
• [New] Accounting for the reciprocal, water-to-land consequences of impaired water quality could represent an important conservation paradigm, both in North America and globally, where water quality concerns persist.
• [New] Local police agencies are concerned about the threat of Chinese spying - or at least the optics of buying Chinese surveillance drones.
• [New] 2021's National Defense Authorization Act may ban any federal agencies buying drones made in China, amidst fears DJI could be forced to send sensitive U.S. government or citizens' data back to Beijing.
• [New] The U.S. could take into account a navy response to the rocket assault that hit an airbase in western Iraq the place American and coalition troops are housed.
• [New] The rocket attack was the first since the U.S. struck Iran-aligned militia targets along the Iraq-Syria border last week, killing one militiaman and stoking fears of another cycle of tit-for-tat attacks as happened last year.
• [New] The RAAF plans to buy three drones, which Boeing calls the Airpower Teaming System, as part of the Loyal Wingman Advanced Development Program.
• [New] Neutron will fly from Pad 0-A from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia, the pad currently used by Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket and next to Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 2 pad for its Electron rocket.
• [New] The maiden flight of Vega C will put into orbit the LARES 2 satellite for the Italian Space Agency (ASI).
• [New] A U.S. strategy to save Taiwan should depend less on U.S. aircraft carriers sailing to the rescue in waters China will dominate, and more on intensified and detailed coordinated planning to deter China and help Taiwan defend itself.
• [New] Rocket Lab initially plans to launch Neutron in 2024 from a launch pad at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, rather than its New Zealand-based launch site where all Electron launches so far have taken place from.
• [New] There will be a capital vacuum for Tier 1 airlines for narrow body aircraft of five to 15 years old in the coming years, providing compelling investment opportunities.
• [New] Any OMOs carried out by the CB to lower Fed Funds rates will only lower the yield of short term Treasuries and do nothing for the spread between Treasuries and Corporate Bonds, which might even continue ballooning out further.

Last updated: 08 March 2021