UK promotes global airline carbon market after Brexit

Britain is urging the EU to support a global carbon market for emissions from airlines, a move that would probably supersede the bloc’s own trading program. Aviation is too big of an industry to be covered piecemeal by regional pollution rules, according to Liz Sugg, the UK’s aviation minister. Flights within the union are covered by the EU’s carbon market, the world’s biggest emissions trading system. It’s not clear whether the UK will remain in that market after Brexit March 29. “Given the international nature of the aviation sector, measures with a global scope are required to ensure action is taken -- not just on certain routes or in certain regions, but at a global scale that captures the majority of emitters,” Sugg wrote in a letter to the lobby group Transport & Environment. <br/>