EU climate flight plans ‘deluded’

Current proposals to include aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme will have very little impact on aviation's contribution to climate change, a new report by leading climate scientists warned September 2007. Friends of the Earth, which commissioned the research, is urging the EU to substantially strengthen its ETS proposals, and calling for additional measures to curb the growth in flights. The environmental campaign group also wants the UK Government to include international aviation emissions in its proposals for a new climate change law.

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Friends of the Earth: Press Release, 4.9.07: Scientists warn that EU plans to curb aviation emissions must be strengthened http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/scientists_warn_that_eu_pl_03092007.html

Friends of the Earth/Tyndall Cente: Aviation in a low carbon EU, 2007 http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/reports/aviation_tyndall_07_main.pdf

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