22.12.2011 - EU court backs rules to include airlines in carbon market
The European Union's top court backed the inclusion of the airline industry in the bloc's carbon-trading market Wednesday in a decision that is likely to stir up an escalating diplomatic row between the EU and its biggest trading partners. The widely expected ruling comes as the U.S. and others intensify pressure on the EU to delay the expansion of its emissions trading scheme to airlines on Jan. 1, or scrap it altogether in favor of a new international deal...............................................Full Article: Source
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