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Air & Climate Newsletter June 30, 2011 |
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US demands its airlines are exempted from EU carbon trading
The EU is headed for a showdown with its largest trading partner after the US demanded its airlines are exempted from the bloc`s emissions trading scheme when it expands to include aviation emissions next year. The US is incensed that non-EU carriers will be included in the bloc`s plans to charge per tonne of CO2 emitted for every flight in and out of Europe, and heated talks in Oslo yesterday brought the sides no closer to a resolution. "We clearly stated our strong objections to the EU plans on both legal and policy grounds," a US administration official told a telephone ... | ||
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David Cameron must speak out on climate change, says top scientist
David Cameron must end his silence on climate change and "step up to the plate" to provide international leadership, the former government chief scientific adviser Prof Sir David King says on Wednesday. Writing in the Guardian, King also reveals that after his declaration that global warming was a greater threat than global terrorism in 2004, then US president, ... | ||
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