Ticket price fears after aviation emissions cap call

Worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from flying must be limited as part of a global deal to tackle climate change, according to the committee set up to advise the Government on the issue. Ahead of the UN meeting in Copenhagen in December, designed to thrash out a new international agreement on cutting greenhouse gases, the Climate Change Committee said in a letter to ministers that aviation emissions must be capped as part of a wider deal to reduce emissions. The group wants rich countries to take the lead, making sure their aviation emissions are no higher, and possibly lower, than they were in 2005 by 2050. The cap could come through a global deal governing the whole industry or as part of national and regional targets for reducing greenhouse gases, the letter to Transport Secretary Lord Adonis and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said. Any deal to reduce emissions from flying should be "ambitious", and aim for no less than the EU's current plans which require a 5 per cent reduction in emissions from 2013 to 2020. But the committee's chief executive David Kennedy insisted such measures would not force people to fly less than they currently do.

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ITN | September 9, 2009

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