Airlines will pay more for air pollution-EU law
2022.12.07 08:35
Airlines will pay more for air pollution-EU law
Budrigannews.com – The European Association arrived at an arrangement in the early long periods of Wednesday on a regulation to expand the value that carriers need to pay when they discharge planet-warming carbon dioxide outflows, adding strain to the area to move away from petroleum products.
To cover their carbon dioxide emissions, airlines operating within Europe must currently obtain permits from the EU’s carbon market; however, the majority of those permits are provided to them at no cost by the EU.
Under the agreement reached by negotiators from EU nations and the European Parliament, which would phase out those free permits by 2026, that is about to change. In 2024, free permits would be reduced by 25%, and in 2025, by 50%.
That will mean carriers should pay for their CO2 licenses, giving a monetary impetus to them to dirty less.
From 2024 to 2030, airlines that use sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) will receive a smaller amount of free CO2 permits—20 million—to partially compensate them for the price difference between SAFs and much cheaper fossil fuel kerosene.
Suncana Glavak, the lead negotiator on behalf of the EU parliament, stated, “We stand with the sector through the process of the green transition.”
Negotiators have agreed to assess in 2026 whether the U.N. aviation agency ICAO’s scheme to offset international flights’ CO2 emissions is on track to deliver net zero emissions by 2050. If it is not, the EU will propose expanding its carbon market to cover emissions from all departing flights. Until now, the EU has only covered emissions from flights within the EU.
Climate activists lamented the delay in including international flights in the carbon market.
Jo Dardenne, director of aviation for the non-profit group Transport and Environment, stated, “Average European families will continue to pay much more for their CO2 emissions than frequent long-haul flyers.”
From 2025, airlines will also have to start reporting other pollutants like soot particles and nitrogen oxides. In 2028, the EU plans to propose including those emissions in the carbon market.
EU nations and the coalition’s Parliament will presently officially support the law before it produces results.
