An ETS with 85% free allowances, combined with the fuel tax and VAT exemptions, while charging buses and trains and thus distorting competition, is simply self-defeating.
Member states and the European Commission vice-presidents must take responsibility for these failures and start to address aviation in a joined-up way, not via silos where directorates abrogate joint responsibility for addressing cross-cutting questions such as fuel tax, VAT or state-aid scandals. Non-CO2 emissions must be taken seriously and measures should be prepared.
Lessons from EU funding in Central and Eastern European countries
Is the aviation sector ready to transition to sustainable jet fuel?
Half the airlines in the ranking score zero for their lack of uptake of sustainable aviation fuels.