This is idiotic. The EU carbon trading cabal has decided to extort the rest of the air travel world starting in 2012. In a nutshell, they’ll ban flights from landing if the airlines don’t engage in carbon trading. It’s yet another variation of the “Plane Stupid” theme.
Benny Peiser of the GWPF alerts us to the translation of the article in the German magazine Handelsblatt
By Thomas Ludwig
Foreign airlines are threatened with a flight and landing ban from 2012 in the European Union if they do not participate in emissions trading.
The ban is proposed in an internal document by the EU Commission seen by Handelsblatt. Summarised on nine pages, the guidelines describe how such a ban could be implement. The Commission considers a flight and landing ban as a last resort to make the airlines surrender over its Emissions Trading Scheme.
An EU Directive stipulates that airlines from Europe and third countries are mandated to be included in the trading of emissions rights. On their flights to and from Europe, they may then only emit as much CO2 as the CO2 certificates they hold. 85 percent of the certificates are free of charge while 15 percent of the allowances have to bought via auctions.
“The whole project has not been thought through. The EU cannot impose its law on third countries,” Holger Krahmer, environmental spokesman for the German Liberal Party in the EU Parliament told Handelsblatt.
In fact, international resistance against the EU plan is growing. Several American, Asian and African airlines are suing the EU over its emissions trade project. The US Aviation Association ATA is attempting to have the policy suspended by the European Court of Justice. And the Russian government has also voiced its displeasure in Brussels.
Not even critics of the project believe that the European Commission will actually ban flights by American and other foreign airlines. “They will use it as leverage, and accept compensation measures,” estimates Liberal MEP Holger Krahmer. The EU Commission is looking for a face-saving way out: “What remains are the costs of CO2 allowances, which will only burden European airlines and make them uncompetitive” Airlines such as Lufthansa and Air Berlin had already warned of this danger in the legislative process.
“The EU has once again overestimated itself,” said Krahmer. “The project was not thought through. The EU cannot impose its legal authority on third countries.”
At the end of September, the general assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) will take place. Some countries, such as the U.S. want to adopt a resolution, which will make clear that emissions trading systems may only be applied by mutual agreement.
“Greenhouse gas emissions have increased dramatically, particularly in air traffic,” said Social Democrat MEP Matthias Groote. The climate expert warns against granting exemptions to noncompliant airlines from third countries. “If the U.S. and other countries try to suspend the EU emissions trading regime for third countries, it would lead to a huge distortion of competition for European airspace.” It is more important than ever to integrate international aviation into the EU’s emissions trading system. After all, the emissions of greenhouse gases in air traffic have doubled in the past two decades.
The EU Directive, which includes aviation in emissions trading, is part of a package of regulations with which the EU wants to meet its climate protection goals. Emissions of greenhouse gases should fall by a fifth by 2020 under the 1990 level […]
The inclusion of aviation in the Emissions Trading Scheme will impact consumers too. According to calculations by the EU Commission, a ticket for a return flight within the EU could become more expensive by up to nine Euros because of emissions trading. For long-haul flights, larger price increases can be expected, a return ticket to New York could be up to 40 Euros more expensive. [translation by Philipp Mueller]
Full story here: Handelsblatt, 22 September 2010
h/t to Benny Peiser http://www.thegwpf.org
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E.M.Smith says:
September 28, 2010 at 10:40 am
Now it has been found that the oldest city is CARAL :
http://www.caralperu.gob.pe/
Re E.M.Smith
Signing the entente cordiale was a big mistake. Helped put an end to the traditional British pastime of invading somewhere warmer and with better beaches. The whole war thing was also a handy way of thinning out populations before they became too unruly, so I’m a bit suprised Malthusian greens are so anti-war. Perhaps they’re afraid of getting conscripted, having a hair cut and having to do some real work.
E.M.Smith says:
September 28, 2010 at 10:40 am
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You completely and utterly missed my point.
I am in agreement with you that there is much, much more out there just besides Europe.
But you and I are talking past each other on everything else, so enough said.
Chris
E M Smith
In your diatribe 🙂 aimed at save the sharks I think you omitted to see the word ‘cradle of WESTERN civilisation’. That the Greeks and Romans can claim to be the cradle from which many of our Western ideas, thoughts, philosophies and institutions sprang is surely correct. Which is not to denigrate the achievements of other cultures but they didn’t have the same impact on the West.
tonyb
Canada is the country of the future becasue we have enormous amounts of fresh water and gobs of coal, nat gas, oil , minerals, crop lands and forests. In BC hydro power supplies most all of the electricity and is cheap.
Thanks TonyB.
“Cradle of Western Civilization” was what I said and definitely what I meant.
-Chris
The EU has become an self-important irrelevant dinosaur. The fallout from the recent GFC confirms this. The EU’s socialist platform in part directly led to the GFC through its “redistribution of sovereign debt” and its lingering problems. The EU now has the financial basketcases of Spain, Portgual, Greece, Italy, Poland, Ireland and Iceland, and to a lesser extent the UK to bail out, and what better way to do it, then to slug the rest of the world with another tax.
Because of parliamentary politics, the Greens have disproportionate influence in Europe. And the Greens are mostly former Reds. The Green agenda is actually a Red agenda.
E.M.SMITH
A nice sum up but a little bit off base. You f=refer admiringly to civilisations disintegrating then rebounding but ignore your ow,
Are you sure that Europe was “Barbarian” whilst Egypt glowed. Where do you think Common Law came from. Why did the Romans find it so necessary to commit genocide on the Carthaginians and the Celts.
More evidence is found everyday that Europe was not a barbarian outpost, that the Romans needed to destroy it. Look at Stonehenge, built by barbaric, isolated bearskin wearing tribesmen. But recent finds show they came from Bern and Martiques, They traveled extensively.
You Ignore the Pasryks and The Tocharians, their glorious mummified remains dating to 2,000 BC that terrify the Chinese Controllers.
So which is better Soap or Common Law
Indeed nor its is coming out in the wash, the final countdown, Common Law versus Code Hammurabi.
Harold Pierce Jr says: September 28, 2010 at 3:24 pm
“Canada is the country of the future becasue we have enormous amounts of fresh water…”
This is somewhat of a myth. Canada has a lot of land area covered by fresh water, but this is different than an renewable supply of fresh water. If you use the water contained in a lake, then its gone and you need to replenish that water either through glacial/snow pack melt or rain.
B.C. will be building a new dam at its site C location that will supply power for 400, 000 homes. Or perhaps supply power for the 1 million electric cars California hopes to have by the time the dam is built (I think 10 years from now).
The Quote “The project was not thought through” sums up the whole of the EU and the working of the bureaucratic minds behind it. There are far too many examples to show this to be true to give here but one which has been a disaster is making fishermen throw back perfectly good fish if they are out of quota, the fish are either dead or dying but the rules are the rules!
I wonder what Ryanair have to say about this…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1310860/Ryanair-boss-Michael-OLeary-says-global-warming-doesnt-exist.html
garymount says:
September 28, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Harold Pierce Jr says: September 28, 2010 at 3:24 pm
“Canada is the country of the future becasue we have enormous amounts of fresh water…”
This is somewhat of a myth. Canada has a lot of land area covered by fresh water, but this is different than an renewable supply of fresh water. If you use the water contained in a lake, then its gone and you need to replenish that water either through glacial/snow pack melt or rain.
Would it surprise you if I said that we get a lot of snow and rain in this country of Canada? I hope not.
Why does everyone tack the word “renewable” onto a sentence and then claim that whatever is under discussion is not a renewable process.
I do agree that if aliens steal all the earth’s water the process whereby rain and snow falls will stop… So don’t think that I totally disagree with your opinion. 🙂
Cheers from a very snowy, rainy, hot cold war part of Canada (near Lake Simcoe) wherein the weather changes often.
I live near Vancouver which just had its second wettest September in history which followed one of the wettest Augusts in history (recorded at YVR airport, the official record location for weather (not climate)). So I know rain.
Anyway, instead of me explaining the water myth, I will let this 2006 article explain it.
http://www.innovationcanada.ca/en/articles/the-myth-of-abundant-canadian-water
“…The true measure of water that we can use sustainably is the annual runoff from land. If we exceed that value, our water use is unsustainable…”
Oh my. The article I linked to in my previous post goes off on a tangent to global warming nonsense. The first few paragraphs started well. It is a pre-climategate article so some of the nonsense can be somewhat excused.
If you read it and compare to the heavy amount of rain I alluded to, you can see how wrong the article was on increased drought.
Where is my last post ?
“The solution is simple. Starting today, the Airlines should refuse to carry anyone associated with the EU government. That includes spouse and children of the offending members. It shouldn’t take long before this idea hits the round file.”
Heck, they’ll just use VIP transports from EU air farces.
I notice some of the American posters having a go at us Europeans, why ? The majority of us are like you and don’t believe any of this.
We, in Britain were promised a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty but it never came so now we are led by the noses by the Autocrats in Brussels , google Nigel Farage for his views on the EU. He tells it as it really is.
They are not doing anything with the mandate of the majority of Europeans, we just don’t get a say in it.
Roll on the revolution!