Aviation is responsible for about two percent of global greenhouse gas pollution and that share is expected to rise, as leading green groups and the European Union demand the sector clean up its act.

Air France/KLM (AIRF.PA), British Airways (BAY.L), Cathay Pacific (0293.HK), Virgin Atlantic [VA.UL], airport operator BAA (FER.MC) and international NGO The Climate Group have proposed a deal that covers all carbon pollution from the international aviation sector.

It is the first time airline firms have banded together to make recommendations to U.N. climate change officials on how to tackle the sector's carbon emissions.

This would ensure equal treatment for airlines and open the way to global emissions trading within the sector and possibly with other industries and countries.

Emissions from international aviation fall outside reduction commitments of the Kyoto Protocol but will be part of a new and broader UN climate pact that about 190 nations will try to agree at the end of the year.

The EU Commission plans to include flights into and out of the 27-nation bloc from 2012 in its emissions trading scheme.

The United States opposes the plan to include foreign airlines in the EU's emissions trading scheme and has pushed ICAO to let individual nations decide the best way to manage greenhouse gas emissions from their airlines.

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