Aviation sector wants to avoid a closed trading scheme and forced carbon emissions cuts
… The Ecologist | 22nd September 2009 News Aviation Climate Change Flights Air Transport Carbon Emissions aviation-image.jpg The aviation industry will become the biggest …
Long haul leisure flights the main driver of aviation emissions, says report that believes Heathrow airport can be expanded without breaking the UK's carbon emissions targets
… December 2009 News Climate Change Air Travel Aviation airplanes.jpg Taxes and even … Long haul leisure flights the main driver of aviation emissions, says report that believes … set a target for carbon emissions from aviation to not exceed 2005 levels by 2050. …
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… that it might contain some commitment by the aviation industry to fully integrate itself … heart sank. What I read instead was that the aviation industry wanted to opt out of the EU … Earth a ‘con’ and a ‘smokescreen’; and the Aviation Environment Federation warned that …
Airlines also likely to see profits double under the next phase of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
… to tackling climate change,’ she said. Aviation sector Another big benefactory of the EU's trading scheme could be the aviation sector. A report from The Carbon … per cent of the permits will be given to the aviation sector for free. However, it does …
Groundstaff at Japan’s Hokkaido airport must be the only team in the world trying to save the snow that collects on the taxi-ways, rather than get it to melt as quickly as possible.
… Japan Hokkaido Snow Carbon Reductions Japan AviationAviation Climate Change Pollution News web pic … with insulation. The Tokyo Regional Civil Aviation Bureau hopes that the snow pile can …
Ryanair is calling on the Scottish Government to further subsidise air travel
… Ecologist | 20th October 2009 News Ryanair Aviation Climate Change airplanes.jpg Airlines … but the idea that we can just keep expanding aviation year after year while still taking … promises on emission cuts More on the aviation debate …
London City Airport has been allowed to double the number of flights despite environmental impact
… The Ecologist | 29th September 2009 News Aviation Emissions Climate Change Flights … of the Government’s commitment to reducing aviation emissions to below 2005 levels by …
A major shift towards green taxes and 'pay as you burn, not pay as you earn' would benefit the environment and the economy
… study says higher taxes on road transport and aviation, lower taxes on employees and … particularly those that would fall on the aviation sector. Useful links The UK Green …
Forecasts of our likely failure to meet carbon reduction targets is putting UK Government credibility on climate change at risk, say independent analysts
… likely to be offset by the continuing rise in aviation transport emissions, say forecasters … Does shipping have a green future? The aviation industry has its climate change …
The new suite of measures proposed by the Government for reducing greenhouse gas emissions is an impressive list... but as the information sinks in green groups have begun to find some holes
… gas emissions from international shipping and aviation, but sets only a weak cap on the UK aviation industry, with a requirement for the …
The aviation industry has its climate change plans, car manufacturers are working on 'eco' alternatives, and rail is considered top of the class, but what has the transport mode that delivers 90 per cent of goods to the UK done to improve upon its environmental credentials?
… Pollution Particulates solarshiplarge.jpg The aviation industry has its climate change …
For environmentalists, tar sands are a 'climate crime'; for peak oil experts, they can never do the job of ordinary crude. But neither critique tells the full story: that exploiting tar sands may worsen both the climate crisis, and the energy crisis...
… Does shipping have a green future? The aviation industry has its climate change …
As adventure tourism exhausts its possibilities, what next?… A look at why we travel, its environmental impact, and where our final destination might be
… countries from a theoretical halt to aviation growth in the UK would not actually …