哥本哈根气候变化大会批判航空业未来, 欧洲航空公司协会

Release Date: 2009-12-07

As the world travels to Copenhagen for the COP15 Climate Change Conference, the aviation sector once again expects to be a focus of attention as a solution is sought to include airline CO2 emissions in a comprehensive abatement scheme. The industry has always been sensitive to the fact that it fell outside the scope of the Kyoto Agreement, exposing it to misperceptions of its contribution to climate change and its commitment to minimising its impact

AEA member airlines, comprising Europe’s most important network carriers, welcome the opportunity to participate in a genuine, global exercise to arrive at meaningful solutions to climate change. That participation is limited, inasmuch as aviation’s contribution to man-made CO2 is limited; nevertheless the airlines take their environmental responsibilities seriously, and come to Copenhagen with truly global
aspirations – which is, after all, what the Conference is all about.

Said AEA Secretary General Ulrich Schulte-Strathaus: “The primary focus of COP15 is on targets, but targets are meaningless if they are unachievable. The airlines’ approach is through action and innovation, delivering real, identifiable benefits through short, medium and longer-term timescales. By harnessing operational improvements, infrastructure efficiencies and technological developments, combined with marketbased measures, the aviation sector is able to make firm commitments to very substantially reduce its future emissions”.

A feature of a comprehensive agreement, he said, should be an end to the imposition on aviation of actual or proposed taxes and levies with a nominally environmental purpose. “What is the purpose of an emissions abatement programme”, he asked; “to achieve environmental objectives or to raise tax income? It is not only inconsistent to parallel this process with a separate tax regime, such taxes actively undermine the industry’s ability to green itself”.

Type:	NORMAL
Company:	欧洲航空公司协会
Country:	比利时