US FIGHTS TO BLOCK EU AVIATION EMISSIONS SCHEME
January 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLAmerica has begun a round of intensive lobbying to head off an EU proposal that from 2012 all foreign airlines be included in a emissions trading scheme. Under the plan, airlines would be allocated pollution allowances each year - if they exceed these they will be obliged to buy carbon credits from other airlines. Washington has called the scheme "illegal" and "unworkable" and said it would use the estimated two years process for the plan to become law "to try and persuade colleagues in Europe that this is not a path to follow." The US has ...
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