INDIA SAYS IT WILL BAN ITS AIRLINES FROM USNG ETS
April 1st, 2012 BY KEITH NUTHALL THE INDIAN government has become the latest to tell the European Union (EU) it does not want its airlines to participate in the expanded EU emissions trading scheme (ETS). The country's civil aviation minister Ajit Singh told the Indian parliament ahead of the March 31 deadline for taking part that Indian airlines would simply fail to hand over emissions data to the European Commission. Singh noted that given this, "the imposition of carbon tax does not arise". And he indicated this was with the full support of the Indian government, ...
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