T&E provided feedback to the European Commission’s ...
Fourteen of the 20 biggest polluting airlines grew their CO2 emissions within Europe in 2019 - according to official EU figures released...
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.
EU transport ministers discussing Covid-related financial aid to airlines must make bailouts in these hard times conditional on carriers starting to pay tax once conditions improve and taking up...
The EU should stop giving airlines free permits to pollute, 10 governments said today. Carriers have to buy emission allowances under the EU’s emissions trading system (ETS) but currently get half...
Aviation’s climate impact is substantial and growing; its emissions grew 26% in Europe in the past five years, and now make up 3.4% of European emissions. That growth will continue...
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...
“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...