Europe tourers may have to pay carbon tax

New Delhi: By 2010, Indian travellers to Europe could end up paying a bit more if EU's proposal to put a carbon tax on all flights landing within European countries comes through.
EU's parliament has cleared a proposal that would bring the aviation industry under its European Emission Trading Scheme, demanding that any airplane landing anywhere in Europe pay for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions they throw up during the travel.
Though this is not the final step in the proposal becoming a law it has a reached a worrisome level of maturity for Indian carriers.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that the aviation industry produces 1.6% of total global emissions and with a growth in the aviation sector, its contribution to climate change is bound to rise in the years to come. But under the internationally negotiated Kyoto Protocol to cap emissions from different sectors and countries, aviation industry has been left out till 2012 when it will be renegotiated.
17/11/07 Nitin Sethi/Times of India

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Categories: Foreign Nov 2007