EU clashes with U.S. over airline emissions trade - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

EU clashes with U.S. over airline emissions trade
Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:48am EDT

By Jeff Mason

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will press
ahead with plans to include aviation in its emissions
trading system despite United States' efforts through a
U.N. body to discourage it, a spokeswoman for the EU
executive said on Friday.

Airline emissions are at the top of the agenda of a tri-
annual meeting of the International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO) in Montreal, which began earlier
this week.

The United States, which opposes EU plans to include
foreign airlines in its emissions trading scheme, is
pushing ICAO to let individual nations decide the best
way to manage greenhouse gas emissions from their
airlines, a U.S. working paper says.

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But the European Commission, which authored the
legislation that would include flights coming into and
out of the 27-nation bloc from 2012 in the EU scheme,
said it will go forward with its proposal, which it says
is in line with international law.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL1882449420070921

[unhappycamper]

1. Airlines : crank it up

EU : count 'em

It's a good move, IMO.

[razzleberry]

2. nobody is stupid enough to belive this

here is how life works...

should this happen,
non-US aiirlines will get their money back.
US airline won't