European airlines have begun receiving hundreds of millions of euro in taxpayer-funded bailouts with no obligations to reign in their environmental impact. T&E, Greenpeace and Carbon Market...
Airlines emitted record amounts last year, new official data shows, ahead of an expected slump in emissions this year. Carbon pollution on flights within Europe increased 1.5%, while Ryanair again...
EU governments considering airline bailouts have been told they must make financial aid conditional on carriers starting to pay tax once conditions improve and taking up green technology.
The biggest airline CO2 emitter within Europe, Ryanair, has been reprimanded by an advertising regulator over claims that it was “low CO2” and “Europe’s… lowest emissions airline”. The low-cost...
An EU-wide tax on aviation remains uncertain following December’s meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels. The new European Commission wants to tackle emissions from aviation as part of its ‘...
EU finance ministers are moving to end the fuel tax exemptions enjoyed by the aviation and shipping sectors, it has been reported, as the UN regulators responsible for their climate emissions...
European governments will cast doubt on the EU’s climate leadership if they will not defend the bloc’s right to regulate airline emissions. At the time of publication, officials representing...
The EU has ordered €8.5 million in illegal state aid to be recovered from Ryanair in the latest indication of how extensive public subsidies are to aviation, one of the...
A round trip flight from Amsterdam to the south of France costs the same as a round trip ticket to the Dutch island of Terschelling. How is that possible? Part of the answer can be found in the...
Here are four ways to tackle the aviation sector's climate impact through taxation.