Thursday, May 27, 2010
A transatlantic coalition of environmental groups today joined an action at the UK High Court to defend Europe’s right to tackle carbon emissions from foreign aircraft that visit Europe.
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EurActiv reports that the EU Commission published preliminary figures for the industrial installations covered by the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) fell by 11% in 2009 mostly due to the global economic downturn. Environmental groups like Sandbag now fear that the resulting surplus CO2 allowances will be banked until the next trading period starting 2013 [...]

The Federal Association of German Airlines (Bundesverband der deutschen Fluggesellschaften) BDF has published a position paper where it lays out that in their opinion some of the revenues from the emissions trading, which is to start in 2012 in the European Union, should be used to reduce the CO2 emissions of air traffic [...]