Aviation

News: Flight through the night with no fuel

A Swiss pilot and entrepreneur has successfully completed the world’s first solar-powered flight. André Borschberg of the Swiss company Solar Impulse stayed airborne with no fuel for 26 hours, several of them through the night, earlier this month.

July 22, 2010 | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy | T&E Bulletin

News: Illegal air subsidies

The EU has paid illegal subsidies to the airline maker Airbus over four decades, according to the first of two verdicts by the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

July 22, 2010 | Aviation | T&E Bulletin

News: Air ticket tax for Germany as government looks to balance budget

The German government has announced it is to introduce a tax on international air tickets. The move would make it the fourth western European nation following France, Great Britain and Ireland to have an aviation ticket tax.

June 17, 2010 | Aviation | Pricing & Taxation | T&E Bulletin

News: Environmental evidence will be heard in aviation EU-ETS legal action

A transatlantic coalition of environmental NGOs has been recognised as having sufficient expertise to be allowed to submit evidence to a court case in which three American airlines are claiming the EU’s decision to force aviation into the Emissions Trading Scheme is illegal.

June 17, 2010 | Aviation | T&E Bulletin

News: Environmental groups defend European efforts to reduce aircraft emissions

A transatlantic coalition of environmental groups today joined an action at the UK High Court to defend Europe’s right to tackle carbon emissions from foreign aircraft that visit Europe.

May 27, 2010 | Press Releases | Climate Change & Energy | Aviation

News: Hedegaard rejects airlines' call to postpone ETS

The Commission has dismissed suggestions by the aviation industry that the cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland that disrupted flights over north-western Europe last month should alter the terms under which aviation enters the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in 2012.

May 20, 2010 | Climate Change & Energy | Aviation | T&E Bulletin

News: Step forward on air pollution from shipping

The world’s largest marine Emissions Control Area (ECA) has been approved by the International Maritime Organisation. Ships operating in waters off the North American coasts will be forced to use dramatically cleaner fuel and technology. The move is likely to make it easier for the EU to designate ECAs in European waters.

April 19, 2010 | Air Pollution | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy | Shipping | T&E Bulletin

News: Climate judgement stops airport expansion

The potential for climate legislation to influence transport policy was demonstrated in Great Britain last month, when a judge told the British government it could not go ahead with a third runway and sixth terminal at London’s Heathrow airport without looking again at the project’s climate implications.

April 19, 2010 | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy | T&E Bulletin

News: Analysis: Aviation and Shipping Emissions after Copenhagen

The outcome of the Copenhagen summit proved extremely disappointing as regards international aviation and shipping emissions. Although more discussion amongst countries on bunker fuels at the UNFCCC occurred in the past three months than during the last ten years, it proved impossible to bridge the continuing differences.

January 4, 2010 | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy | Pricing & Taxation

News: Copenhagen close to failure on aviation and shipping emissions

With less than two days to go, the Copenhagen climate negotiations have yet to identify a feasible way forward to reduce emissions from international aviation and shipping.

December 17, 2009 | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy | Press Releases | Shipping

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