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...
Airline emissions in Europe will increase by 683 million tonnes of CO2 over 10 years – the...
Several years of efforts at international level have resulted in the creation of a global offsetting scheme for international aviation, known as the Carbon Offsetting Scheme for International...
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.
France has announced a new tax on flight tickets in the latest sign that European governments are prepared to curb the aviation sector’s growing climate emissions by ending its tax holiday. The ‘...