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Tag: air fuel

Aviation targets carbon neutral growth - 11 June 2009 - News

The international aviation industry has committed to "carbon neutral growth" by 2020, which would allow the sector to grow without increasing its carbon footprint.

Aviation sector crisis: There will be consolidation, but not a bloodbath - 22 September 2008 - Analysis

A combination of rising oil prices and weakening demand is "hitting the aviation industry harder than virtually every other sector," according to Eric Heymann of DB Research.

French air ticket tax set to clash with EU green plans - 30 August 2005 - News

France will go ahead as of 2006 with a levy on airlines to finance development aid, President Chirac has announced on 29 August. But the tax could upset a separate EU proposal to cap pollution from airplanes.

Tax flight - An Investigation into the exemption from taxation of international aviation - 18 May 2005 - Analysis

This working paper by Daniël Meijers from the International Centre for Integrative Studies (ICIS, Maastricht University) looks at the origins and development of the exemption from various kinds of taxation of international aviation.

Kerosene tax: going it alone would be a mistake - 04 April 2005 - Analysis

Eric Heymann from Deutsche Bank Research writes that a tax-free fuel for air traffic is a privilege which cannot be accepted from an environmental point of view. But he argues that, for Germany, going it alone at national level would be a mistake with traffic volume moving to neighbouring countries. Other possibilities would be the integration of air traffic in the EU emissions trading scheme. At current prices, he estimates the price surcharge to make a flight climate neutral to be roughly 5-20 euros per ticket.

Aircraft emissions to be debated under UK Presidency - 02 February 2005 - News

Several options are being considered to reduce the growing global warming impact of aeroplanes. Proposals will be unveiled under the UK Presidency, after impact assessments are made on the economy, jobs and the environment.

No aircraft tax before 2008 - 11 October 2004 - News

The EU has failed to rally international partners to introduce fuel taxes or charges on international flights during a meeting of the ICAO, the world aviation body. 

EU ministers want global tax on kerosene - 17 September 2001 - News

An informal meeting of EU transport and environment ministers in Louvain-la-neuve (Belgium) on 15 September 2001, called for a global tax on aviation fuel as a tool to diminish the environmental impact of air travel. EU ministers will try to get the tax on the agenda of the assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organisation, at the end of September.

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