The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), which requires polluters to pay for their emissions, was a world first, yet international aviation emissions are still exempt from ETS pricing despite their huge climate damage. The EU must now bring international aviation back under regulation, stand up for its values and reaffirm its role as a global climate action leader.
The demand of airlines to ground or delay two flagship EU climate policies for the aviation sector would result in soaring emissions, delay decarbonisation and hurt the European Union’s efforts to become a clean tech leader. The EU must hold steady on its course.
The aviation industry is championing offsetting, carbon removals and other technical quick fixes to help it fly under the radar of climate action and avoid actual emissions reductions.
No airline has yet been obliged to use a single carbon credit under the UN’s Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). And when they will, CMW research reveals the European Union’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) imposes a carbon price on aviation emissions that is 25 times higher.
Space has become the final frontier for tourism. But is it responsible during a climate crisis for the super-rich to play billionauts and boldly go where no billionaire has gone before in search of a Planet B? Tech billionaire and pioneering space tourist Jared Isaacman is back and he is on a mission to boldly …
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CO2 and non-CO2 emissions caused by flying aren’t simply lost in the clouds. There are actions policymakers and airlines can take today to alleviate aviation’s climate impact, explains CMW’s Bastien Bonnet-Cantalloube Summer has arrived, and it is time for that well earned holiday. However, when fretting over the last-minute stuffing of the suitcase or the …
Read more “Summer hot ticket: Why flying has twice the climate impact you’d expect”
As Euro 2024 kicks off, the tournament has been caught offside with some of its climate claims. UEFA must do better to tackle its carbon footprint.
The first carbon credits issued under the UN’s CORSIA offsetting scheme will do nothing to bring down the aviation sector’s sky high emissions.
Taylor Swift claims she can offset the immense carbon footprint of her private jet but the only way for high-flying celebrities and the superrich to reduce their climate impact is to fly less and choose more sustainable forms of transport.
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