The EU’s long-awaited decision to include the aviation sector in its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will be an important first step to tackling emissions from aviation.
WWF supports the concept of the inclusion of aviation in the ETS, but is extremely concerned that only approximately 3 per cent of the emission allowances will actually be auctioned when the sector joins the scheme in 2011, with the other 97 per cent being handed out to airlines for free.
A new WWF report — Allocation of allowances for aviation in the EU ETS — shows that the European Commission’s proposals to hand out free allowances to passenger flights could have a perverse effect.
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