EU to further exempt foreign flights from emissions scheme
The EU is set to extend the exclusion of foreign airlines from its emissions trading system to give a UN-brokered global deal time to come into effect, two EU sources said. The move would be welcomed by the airline industry which wants a single, global emissions trading system (ETS) for aviation as opposed to a patchwork of national and regional schemes. The EU had ordered foreign carriers to buy credits under its ETS in 2012 but backtracked when countries said it violated their sovereignty and China threatened to cancel plane orders to Airbus. It granted airlines operating flights into and out of the EU an exemption until 2016 to give the ICAO time to craft a global system. “Expectation is it will be extended,” one of the sources said. The proposal by the EC will be adopted at the end of January, sources said. <br/>
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EU to further exempt foreign flights from emissions scheme
The EU is set to extend the exclusion of foreign airlines from its emissions trading system to give a UN-brokered global deal time to come into effect, two EU sources said. The move would be welcomed by the airline industry which wants a single, global emissions trading system (ETS) for aviation as opposed to a patchwork of national and regional schemes. The EU had ordered foreign carriers to buy credits under its ETS in 2012 but backtracked when countries said it violated their sovereignty and China threatened to cancel plane orders to Airbus. It granted airlines operating flights into and out of the EU an exemption until 2016 to give the ICAO time to craft a global system. “Expectation is it will be extended,” one of the sources said. The proposal by the EC will be adopted at the end of January, sources said. <br/>
