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...
Airline emissions in Europe will increase by 683 million tonnes of CO2 over 10 years – the...
Almost a quarter of the EU airports served by Ryanair are likely to be loss-making and propped up by taxpayers’ money which is used to subsidise airlines’ rapidly growing emissions, a...
The Netherlands and Sweden’s calls for bilateral or multilateral agreements between EU countries to be a way forward to tax aviation fuel have been welcomed by sustainable transport...
Today’s conference of EU finance ministers and officials in the Hague to discuss ways to tax aviation and address its climate impact is a long...