Top China airlines to ignore EU carbon tax, body says

China's biggest airlines will not pay a new European Union tax aimed at cutting carbon emissions, their trade body said in January 2012.

• Primary Source

Deutsche Welle, 5.1.12: Chinese airlines refuse to pay EU carbon tax http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15647594,00.html

ESO: Background information: Turbulence hits EU airline pollution scheme http://www.europeansources.info/record/turbulence-hits-eu-airline-pollution-scheme/

ESO: Background information: China joins US in battle against EU carbon rules for airlines http://www.europeansources.info/record/china-joins-us-in-battle-against-eu-carbon-rules-for-airlines/

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