Thirteen nations have agreed to sign up to Jacques Chirac’s forthcoming tax on air tickets to help development and fight disease in the developing world.
The air ticket tax under discussion at an international aid conference in Paris this week, will have environmental benefits according to T&E, Europe’s principal sustainable transport...
The French parliament has approved plans for a tax on airline tickets which will come into effect on 1 July.
Today's commercial passenger planes are no more fuel-efficient than their equivalents of fifty years ago and aviation industry claims of a 70% improvement in fuel-efficiency are false. These are...
How willing are air travelers to pay for the damage their flights cause to the environment?
Editorial by Jos Dings
This year has seen the first bit of good news in the aviation/environment field for several years. The Commission is now committed to including aviation...
The European Environment Bureau (EEB) and T&E have written to EU Environment Ministers ahead of their November meeting. On the subject of Aviation and Climate Change, the groups call for...