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...
Taxing aviation kerosene sold in Europe [1] would cut aviation emissions by 11% (16.4 million tonnes of CO2) and have no net impact on jobs or the economy as a whole while raising almost €27...
Transport & Environment UK (T&E UK) warmly welcomes the recommendation of the Climate Change Committee to increase the UK’s ambition to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050....
Eight airlines grew their carbon emissions faster than Ryanair on flights within Europe last year. Low-cost airlines Jet2, Wizz Air, EasyJet, Vueling and Norwegian and national carriers TAP,...
Ryanair is now one of the top 10 carbon emitters within Europe, a league which had until now been exclusively occupied by coal plants. Transport & Environment (T&E) says the airline’s No...