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Alemanha quer capturar emissões de dióxido de carbono do setor de linhas aéreas (em inglês)
2006-12-06
Germany wants to cap carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from airlines flying
into its territory and to make them join the EU emissions trading
scheme, a minister was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
"We want to put into practice the plans by the EU Commission to extend
the emissions trading scheme to aviation," Germany's Transport Minister
Wolfgang Tiefensee was quoted as saying in the Handelsblatt business
daily.
Tiefensee said the government planned to get all EU member states to agree to a EU proposal on the issue during Germany's EU presidency in the first half of 2007. Along with domestic flights, airlines from third countries would be required to participate in the mandatory EU trading scheme if they landed or took off in the EU, he said. The trade scheme is the main tool of the EU to comply with Kyoto Protocol targets to bring down greenhouse gases emissions, linked to global warming.
It sets incentives on reducing CO2 emissions and so far covers big polluters such as power plants and oil refineries but excludes airlines, a major and growing source of pollution. An EU Commission draft proposal last month suggested setting caps on pollution permits for airlines from 2011, based on their CO2 emissions between 2004 and 2006.
Under the trading scheme, permits are issued to polluters. If they emit less than their quotas allow, they can sell surplus permits but if they overshoot them, they must buy extra credits. A spokesman for the Berlin environment ministry said there was not yet a concrete date for the move as the Commission had to send its proposals first, expected by the end of this year
Airlines complain that Europe is going off in its own direction as the bloc has no jurisdiction over non-EU states, thus the legislation could be opposed and delayed. Consumers fear that travel costs will go up. An environmental expert at Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt said it had only ever been a question of time before the carbon trading scheme was widened to other industries.
"But the EU should also look to CO2-cutting solutions outside the bloc, namely involve the US," said Dresdner s Armin Sandhoevel at a briefing hosted by the bank.
(Planet Ark, 06/12/2006)
Tiefensee said the government planned to get all EU member states to agree to a EU proposal on the issue during Germany's EU presidency in the first half of 2007. Along with domestic flights, airlines from third countries would be required to participate in the mandatory EU trading scheme if they landed or took off in the EU, he said. The trade scheme is the main tool of the EU to comply with Kyoto Protocol targets to bring down greenhouse gases emissions, linked to global warming.
It sets incentives on reducing CO2 emissions and so far covers big polluters such as power plants and oil refineries but excludes airlines, a major and growing source of pollution. An EU Commission draft proposal last month suggested setting caps on pollution permits for airlines from 2011, based on their CO2 emissions between 2004 and 2006.
Under the trading scheme, permits are issued to polluters. If they emit less than their quotas allow, they can sell surplus permits but if they overshoot them, they must buy extra credits. A spokesman for the Berlin environment ministry said there was not yet a concrete date for the move as the Commission had to send its proposals first, expected by the end of this year
Airlines complain that Europe is going off in its own direction as the bloc has no jurisdiction over non-EU states, thus the legislation could be opposed and delayed. Consumers fear that travel costs will go up. An environmental expert at Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt said it had only ever been a question of time before the carbon trading scheme was widened to other industries.
"But the EU should also look to CO2-cutting solutions outside the bloc, namely involve the US," said Dresdner s Armin Sandhoevel at a briefing hosted by the bank.
(Planet Ark, 06/12/2006)
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