Hoon wants aviation included in international climate change deal
03.06.09
The Government will push for aviation to be included in any internationally agreed climate change deal, abtn reports that transport secretary Geoff Hoon said. Addressing the International Transport Forum in Leipzig, he said aviation should be included in carbon trading schemes, emissions standards and in drives for new technology.
Mr Hoon said: ‘What we really need is progress at an international level. One key means is through a well-designed emissions trading scheme. That is why the UK has pushed hard to include aviation in the European Emissions Trading System.’
He said there would be a push to include international aviation in discussions at the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December, adding: ‘It is one of the great missed opportunities that aviation and shipping were not tackled effectively by the Kyoto Protocol [signed in 1997]. That led to over a decade of inaction. We cannot afford to wait any longer. It is vital that we put that right at Copenhagen.’
The Copenhagen Climate Conference will bring together Governments to renew the international agreement on climate change.
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