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EETS a platform for global trading scheme
19 May 2009
Exclusive from AirLaw conference: despite a rush of new global initiatives, the European Emissions Trading Scheme is setting the pace and provides a platform for a global scheme.
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[Aviation Environment Federation]
With a raft of new initiatives from around the world aimed at reducing aviation’s impact on the environment, Europe is no longer the sole campaigner in the carbon fight – but it is still “well ahead of the game”, according to a panel of experts at Euromoney’s AirLaw conference.
“The last 12 months has been awash with emissions trading schemes from around the world to compliment or supersede what is going on in Europe,” said Tim Johnson of the Aviation Environment Federation to delegates at the third annual conference in London today.
His comments came on the same day that Qatar Airways became the first airline from the Middle East to join the Aviation Global Deal (AGD), a group set up to tackle the environmental...
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