The Protocol with the missing element.

The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement made under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Countries that ratify this protocol commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases, or engage in emissions trading if they maintain or increase emissions of these gases.

The Kyoto Protocol now covers more than 160 countries globally and over 55% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The objective is the "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.

Many of the world's biggest economies have are members of this agreement seeing as they are the biggest polluters, and the UK being one of.

However to my dismay I have discovered that carbon dioxide emitted by aircraft on international flights are excluded from the national targets for the kyoto agreement.

When burnt, aircraft fuel is coverted into CO2 and H2O. So isn't this a cause for concern? Why has avaition pollution been pushed aside? I am aware that other forms of transport emitt dangerous emissions and are probably more easy to target as we have sen with introduction of congestion charging. But why has such a major element to the cause of global warming not even addressed. As more and more people are starting to jet around the world isnt it our duty to have some sort of respect to the condition of the Earth, seeing as we are the ones living on it and what about the future generations?!!