CLIMATE CHANGE : AIRLINES AND PARLIAMENT NOT ON SAME WAVELENGTH.

Europe Environment, November, 2007

Though it accepts the principle of participation by the air transport sector in the European Emission Trading System (ETS) as a "useful" instrument to manage airplane emissions, the Association of European Airlines (AEA) nonetheless refuses to follow those who, within the European Parliament, "seem to be more interested in penalising European airlines and their passengers than in the environmentalbenefits such a system might deliver".

For the leaders of this association, gathered for a General Assembly in Madrid on 19 October, the position adopted on 3 October by the EP's Environment Committee(1) would cost the sector some 160 billion over the next ten years, if the European Union acted unilaterally. That would probably result, it believes, in a barely...

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