| 24.02.2012 - EU CO2 trade cost on airlines outweigh fuel tax, Sandbag says |
| Costs for airlines in the U.K. under the European Union emissions trading system are less than 1 percent of what they would pay in fuel taxes, according to Sandbag, an environmental lobby group. Compliance costs for the 20 biggest airlines registered with the U.K. will be about 76 million pounds ($119 million) in 2012, Rob Elsworth, policy officer in London for the group, said today in an e-mailed statement...............................................Full Article: Source |