EP PUSHES ENVELOPE ON EMISSIONS TRADING FOR NON-EU AIRLINES
February 1st, 2014
THE EUROPEAN Parliament is pushing the European Union (EU) towards a potential clash with the United States, China and others over trading carbon emissions from non-EU airlines. The expansion of the EU’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) to airlines flying in and out of the EU was frozen in November 2012 following protests from Washington and Beijing especially, and pending a global deal on aviation emissions. But the EP’s environment committee has voted for the ETS to be expanded from its current focus on intra-EU flights only to the EU portion of extra-EU ...
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