“Should I offset my flight, and if so, which offset should I use” is now the question I get asked most frequently. It’s understandable - CO2 emissions per flight mean that flying is by...
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 should now agree bilaterally to tax aviation, green transport group Transport & Environment (T&E) has said, as the prospect of an EU-wide tax remains uncertain...
WHAT, WHERE and WHEN?EU finance ministers are meeting tomorrow to discuss the European Council’s vision for future climate action, including on energy taxation. A month...
Easyjet’s announcement that it will offset all emissions from its flights is a belated recognition that the aviation sector has a serious climate problem, sustainable transport group Transport...
Finance ministers from nine European countries have called on the EU to work harder to put a price on aviation’s carbon pollution. In...
The UK government’s announcements today on the new Environment Bill and plans to decarbonise transport will just amount to hot air unless they are backed up by meaningful action, environmental...
Exactly a week after half a million climate protesters marched outside its headquarters in Montreal, the UN aviation agency ICAO’s triennial assembly failed to take any significant steps to rein...
Ursula Von der Leyen, Europe’s new supremo, certainly did not miss her entrée. Since her investiture over the summer Brussels is buzzing with energy and renewed enthusiasm about European...
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...