E.U. Parliament approves plan to require airline emissions reductions

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E.U. Parliament approves plan to require airline emissions reductions

 

A European Union plan to bring the airline industry into its carbon-trading

market has just passed the E.U. Parliament, angering many airlines, the United

States, and other countries. Parliament voted to require steeper emissions cuts

than the E.U. Commission's relatively weaker airline plan. Under the amended

version, by 2011, all airlines flying within or into the E.U. would be required

to reduce their emissions 10 percent below their 2004-2006 average or buy

credits from other airlines that came in under the target. The proposal must now

get approval from E.U. country governments and E.U. ministers before it can

become law. Even if it successfully weathers the rest of the E.U. political

process, observers say the United States would likely attempt to appeal to the

World Trade Organization to overturn the law as a hindrance to international

trade. Isn't " free trade " fun?

 

 

 

sources: Associated Press, International Herald Tribune, Reuters

 

 

 

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