Expanding the EU ETS to all departing EEA flights, including those operated by US airlines, is crucial to generate much needed revenue and spark aviation’s green transition.
The International Civil Aviation Organisation hailed its Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) as a global, harmonised answer to aviation’s growing climate impact. Yet the reality is very different: patchy enforcement, limited coverage, and heavy reliance on problematic offsetting with carbon
Despite being the most climate-damaging form of travel, private jet use has reached record highs, yet most flights are exempt from paying a carbon price, and all are exempt from fuel taxes. This must end.
The European Commission’s Sustainable Transport Investment Plan (STIP) is a promising step towards promoting cleaner fuels in aviation and maritime transport. However, directing revenue from the EU Emissions Trading System towards these sectors should go hand in hand with expanding the EU ETS to
By confronting the aviation industry’s full climate impact, our research shows that by applying the polluter-pays principle and expanding carbon pricing to non-covered aviation climate impacts, there could be a tenfold increase in EU ETS revenues between 2025 and 2040 from the aviation sector.
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
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
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