Fourteen of the 20 biggest polluting airlines grew their CO2 emissions within Europe in 2019 - according to official EU figures released...
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...
Reaction to the UK Advertising Standards Authority’s ruling on Ryanair
The biggest aviation emitter in Europe, Ryanair, has been sanctioned today by the UK Advertising Standards...
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...