The European Union has been accused of letting the air industry off the hook in tackling carbon dioxide emissions.
… Proposed trading in aviation emissions 'doesn't go far enough' … Emissions Trading Scheme MEP Carbon Dioxide Aviation Ozone Layer Climate Change Politics … warming. They say the EU needed a tax on aviation fuel and an end to the exemptions …
International aviation is the UK’s fastest-growing source of carbon emissions, and yet the government isn't even accounting for them. Peter Lockley explains why we urgently need to call a halt to airport expansion
… Lockley | 9th August 2007 News Climate Change Aviation BAA Tyndall Centre Climate Change … Expansion Carbon Emissions Planning Campaigns Aviation Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate … Change Climate Change Pollution International aviation is the UK’s fastest-growing source of …
Degrowth and its opponents recognize the necessity of mass movements and system change to address the climate emergency.
… equally rapid expansion of road transport and aviation that eclipsed any environmental … the trickiest industry to decarbonize: aviation. Richest Some GND proposals, such as … degrowth; they center on the retraining of aviation workers in non-polluting industries. …
Record demand for cheap flights has resulted in 21 (mostly regional) airports publishing expansion plans in the last 5 years. They have been spurred on to do so by the Government’s plans to raise plane passenger numbers from 200 million in 2003 to 500 million by 2030.
… plan to get bigger 28th February 2007 News Aviation Climate Change Greenhouse Gas Emissions Climate Change Aviation Campaigns Carbon Dioxide Global … under heavier scrutiny and criticism than aviation. However the current Labour …
Adverts for flights should carry cigarette-style warnings, centre-left think-tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has advised.
… kills 5th April 2007 News Carbon Offsetting Aviation Planes Flying Labels Emissions IPPR Warning Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Aviation Cars Rail Climate Change News web pic … Institute, said that it is just as clear that aviation causes climate change as that smoking …
Britons are the world's worst polluters in terms of emissions from aviation, a new study has revealed.
… footprint in world 11th October 2007 News Aviation UK Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate Change Aviation Climate Change Pollution News web pic … worst polluters in terms of emissions from aviation, a new study has revealed. Figures …
Concerns are growing as awareness of the carbon footprint of IT equipment grows.
… Carbon footprint of IT the same as aviation 6th November 2007 News It Carbon … opportunities for emissions reductions in the aviation sector are limited. Barrington …
The Government's green light for Heathrow's third runway makes no economic - let alone environmental - sense, says Joss Garman
… 2009 Comment Heathrow Third Runway Flying Aviation Carbon Dioxide Aviation Campaigns Climate Change … vociferous impacts it’s already having on the aviation industry, it should come as no …
John Stewart, chairman of aviation pressure group HACAN ClearSkies, explains why BAA has been out-gunned and out-manoeuvred
… run John Stewart | 9th August 2007 News BAA Aviation Plane Injunction Court Order Heathrow … Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate Change Aviation Climate Change Politics And Economics … newsanalysis.jpg John Stewart, chairman of aviation pressure group HACAN ClearSkies, …
British Airways yesterday launched a new service between Gatwick airport in London and Newquay, in Cornwall.
… Change Carbon Dioxide Cornwall Gatwick Aviation Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate … from commuters on the environmental impact of aviation. Greenpeace campaigner, Emily … if we don’t do something about the growth in aviation Britain will find it very hard to …
The publication of the government's draft Climate Change Bill this week signalled the latest round of the escalating competition between David Cameron and Tony Blair to take the title of climate change champion of the world. Following hard on the EU measures, the government's bill set out more radical targets than before and promises to deliver them – a promise that will be reinforced by a new committee of independent auditors.
… Tony Blair Labour Conservatives 2020 UK Aviation Economics Climate Change Politics And … The bill leaves out shipping and, crucially, aviation, but sets out some key measures: A …
The US House of Representatives has passed a law which could enforce limits on the amount of emissions made by international shipping.
… emissions 28th March 2007 News Shipping Aviation Pollution Sulphur Dioxides Industrial … accounts for twice as much pollution as aviation, some 800 million tonnes of carbon …
Environmentalists held their breath in expectation of Gordon Brown's 'green' budget. Was it worth the wait? Miriam Kennet, a director of the Green Economics Institute, looks at where the Chancellor went awry...
… for the first time talking about the role of aviation in this change to our economy. And in … spectacularly avoided doing something about aviation which for the very first time the …
If the world's leaders really cared about climate change, there's one easy way to reduce emissions, writes John Weeks - drop the obsession with increasing trade, and all the pollution that goes with it. A world based on local production, consumption and finance will be a better one for people and the environment.
… can claim a greener bill-of-health than aviation, that represents a classical example … Clean, an organisation that seeks to reduce aviation pollution, reports : "Long-haul …
Environmentalists had waited with baited breath for the Chancellor's 2007 Budget. Gordon Brown had intimated that it would be the 'greenest ever'. In fact, it was a resounding disappointment.
… Partly because it failed to even address aviation, the fastest growing source of carbon …
Controls on adverts for oil companies, SUV makers and airlines are already starting to happen - but what else should we stop advertising to raise our survival chances?
… on cars that use petrol and diesel and the aviation industry, because these are some of …
As awareness grows of the huge and swelling carbon footprint made by the world’s IT infrastructure, the government has launched a task-force to green our PCs.
… to produce as much carbon dioxide as the aviation industry. By simplifying our PCs and …