T&E response to the public consultation on the Flight Emissions Label
The proposed Flight Emissions label is a missed opportunity to allow consumers to make truly informed choices.
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While Transport & Environment welcomes the Label as an opportunity to provide greater transparency in aviation emissions, the proposed Implementing Act has several issues:
The non-CO2 effects of aviation are yet again hidden from passengers.
The proposed method to apportion emissions to belly cargo would hide an additional 4 Mt of CO2 from European consumers, equal to 4% of all passenger emissions.
CO2 efficiency per kilometre is not a relevant indicator to assess the environmental impact of a flight.
Comparing the emissions of a given flight only to emissions of other flights on the same route is misleading whenever a train alternative is available.
Passengers should be given more information about SAF than its life cycle emissions.
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