Aviation

News: Analysis: Aviation and Shipping Emissions after Copenhagen

The outcome of the Copenhagen summit proved extremely disappointing as regards international aviation and shipping emissions. Although more discussion amongst countries on bunker fuels at the UNFCCC occurred in the past three months than during the last ten years, it proved impossible to bridge the continuing differences.

January 4, 2010 | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy | Pricing & Taxation

News: Copenhagen close to failure on aviation and shipping emissions

With less than two days to go, the Copenhagen climate negotiations have yet to identify a feasible way forward to reduce emissions from international aviation and shipping.

December 17, 2009 | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy | Press Releases | Shipping

News: Aircraft energy efficiency has not improved in a decade

A new study on aviation says the pace of improvements in aircraft energy efficiency is very slow, and no progress has been made in the last decade. It calls for a carbon dioxide emissions standard for aircraft already in production.

December 16, 2009 | Aviation | Fuels | T&E Bulletin | Climate Change & Energy

News: EU-ETS 'windfall' for aviation

A new report suggests airlines could make large windfall profits from aviation joining the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in 2012, if airlines charge customers for emission allowances they are given free-of-charge.

December 16, 2009 | Air Pollution | Aviation | Pricing & Taxation | T&E Bulletin | Climate Change & Energy

News: Open Letter to Environment Ministers at Copenhagen Climate Conference

Transport & Environment, together with other organisations, has criticised the decision to ask Norway and Singapore to guide informal talks on aviation/shipping emissions at Copenhagen.

December 15, 2009 | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy | Shipping

News: China and India blocking aviation-shipping emissions deal

A deal on including aviation and shipping emissions in the Copenhagen climate agreement is being blocked by China, India, Saudi Arabia and The Bahamas (1). Failure to include the two sectors (known collectively as bunker emissions) puts at risk both a major source of climate funding for developing countries and the long term success of climate reduction targets say environmental organisations.

December 14, 2009 | Climate Change & Energy | Aviation | Press Releases | Shipping

Publications: FAQ: Aviation and Shipping at Copenhagen

Aviation and Shipping (bunker) emissions at Copenhagen. Answers to frequently asked questions.

December 7, 2009 | Shipping | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy

News: EU proposes global aviation and shipping targets for Copenhagen

The EU has proposed a specific global agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from aviation and shipping, but it has stepped back from committing the money that could be the key to making it happen. Last month, EU environment ministers agreed to put forward a proposal to cut emissions from aircraft by 10% and from shipping by 20% over the next 10 years (relative to 2005). The proposal, which has been approved by EU heads of government, is now a negotiating mandate for next month’s international climate change summit in Copenhagen.

November 16, 2009 | Aviation | Climate Change & Energy | Shipping | T&E Bulletin

News: Offsetting is ‘a distraction’ that will not meet reduction targets

The reputation of ‘carbon offsetting’ as a legitimate way to reduce environmental impact suffered a further blow last month when a leading on-line environmental travel company removed the option for its customers to offset their carbon emissions. Responsibletravel.com was one of the first travel promoters to offer its customers the chance to pay for environmental projects to offset the emissions caused by their trips, but now it says offsetting is a distraction from the need to reduce emissions as ‘it allows people to behave in the same way or worse’. A spokeswoman for the company said, ‘Too often offsets are used by the tourism industry to justify growth plans on the basis that money will be donated to projects in developing countries – global reduction targets will not be met this way.’

November 16, 2009 | Aviation | T&E Bulletin | Climate Change & Energy

News: No new runway … yet

The campaign against a new runway at one of Europe’s busiest airports appears to have been won, at least in the short term. Earlier this year the British government gave approval to a third runway at London Heathrow, one of the three busiest airports in Europe. But the opposition Conservative party has been against it, and with the Conservatives looking likely to be elected to government in the spring, Heathrow’s owners have said they will not ask for formal planning permission until after the election.

November 16, 2009 | Aviation | T&E Bulletin

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