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The International Air Transport Association (IATA)Nominated for its deceptive lobbying campaign to avoid CO2 reduction obligations in the aviation sector. IATA actively lobbied in Europe to persuade MEPs and Commissioners that aviation was not a significant source of global warming greenhouse gas emissions, and that it should not therefore be included in the Emissions Trading Scheme – while simultaneously threatening that the entire industry in Europe would face disastrous consequences if aviation was made to pay. 
IATA, the lobby group of Lufthansa, British Airways, Air France and other airlines, has used a combination of greenwash PR and heavy-handed hreats to convince EU decision-makers that airlines should be excluded from the EU emissions trading scheme or at least be given free pollution permits if included. Aviation is the fastest growing source of CO2 emissions in Europe, but according to the website created on behalf of IATA’s (Enviro.Aero) and adverts in major international newspapers featuring flowers and butterflies, airlines only contribute 2% to global man-made CO2 emissions. This figure dates from 1992 and omits all the other non-CO2 emissions and indirect effects at high altitude, downplaying the real damage being caused by aviation. If these are taken into account, aviation’s global contribution is estimated as between 3–7%, while in the EU, aviation’s contribution to climate change was estimated as between 4.7–11.6% in 2005. As MEPs considered what action to take, airline lobbyists continuously threatened that reduction obligations for the sector would be an economic disaster and would result in legal challenges by other countries. In fact IATA is actively encouraging these legal challenges themselves by lobbying Australia and other governments to take legal action against the EU. IATA’s aggressive lobbying was partly successful: in July 2008 MEPs voted for emissions cuts by airlines of 3-5% from 2012 onwards, providing 85% of the industry’s pollution permits for free. IATA is currently staging an exhibition at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, promoting their misleading information to an even wider audience. Vote for IATA if you object to corporate greenwash and scare-mongering tactics to avoid greenhouse gas emission reductions Additional information :Climate forcing of aviation emissions in high altitudes and comparison of metrics An update according to the Fourth Assessment Report, IPCC 2007, Hartmut Grassl and Dietrich Brockhagen, December 2007. Clearing the air: the myth and reality of aviation and climate change”, CAN Europe T&E, July 2006, p.33. Comments270 Franz Kasper 10 July 2010: Für Flugreisen muss endlich der ökologische Preis gezahlt werden. Das bedeutet kosten für die Co2-Emissionen und keine Subventionierung des Kerosins. 268 DURHAMCONCETTA22 18 June 2010: Cars and houses are expensive and not everyone can buy it. Nevertheless, credit loans was invented to help people in such kind of situations. 251 Pluschke Wolfgang 21 January 2009: auch für Kerosin müssen Steuern erhoben werden 246 Buddha 22 December 2008: wake up folks… http://green-agenda.com/ 209 Norbert Küttner 2 December 2008: auch Fliegen muß endlich einen fairen Preis kosten! 208 Jeremy Randles 2 December 2008: Stop pretending that you can develop “green” air travel – you can’t. Air travel not only adds directly to green house emmissions, it also actively promotes quick visit tourism which is the epitome of consumer waste in the “I want” society. 204 will embliss 28 November 2008: Global warming is on us and the airlines use their international status to get around paying fuel taxes. even so they still want to lobby for mpore air travel at every opportunity. 203 James Page 28 November 2008: IATA claim they pay for their own infrastructure. Actually they get all their radio spectrum (for radar etc – the equivalent of the rail network in the sky) for free, up until now, whereas everyone else (telecoms etc) has to pay for it, by the billion. 201 Erik 24 November 2008: Kerosine is much too cheap. 198 André Weda 20 November 2008: misleid uw zelf 182 Yorkie 8 November 2008: C’est scandaleux qu’on doit payer le triple d’un vol pour un retour Bruxelles-Berlin en chemin de fer. 181 Fred Astaire 8 November 2008: the link for reference 1 does not work! the right link is: http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/wissenschaft/publikationen/papers/climate-forcing-of-aviation-emissions-in-high-altitudes-and-comparison-of-metrics.html you could also link directly to the PDF: http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/fileadmin/download/Grassl_Brockhagen.pdf 178 Beate Stockmayer 3 November 2008: Fliegen sollte viel mehr kosten. 177 John Defour 1 November 2008: scandaleux 167 Peter Tora 29 October 2008: Diese wahnsinnigen Entscheidungsträger haben sowieso bald ausgespielt. 155 Werner Rust 28 October 2008: Bei dem Schutz unserer Umwelt ist es 5 nach 12 139 Julia Würtz 27 October 2008: Miserable 136 Sandra E. Muth 26 October 2008: Mein persönlicher Favorit ist die International Air Transport Association. Sie trägt dazu bei, dass viele Menschen immer noch nicht realisieren, welchen Schaden Flugreisen ökologisch und meiner Meinung nach auch wirtschaftlich anrichten. 130 maucq christian 24 October 2008: pitoyable 123 Peter Lockley 23 October 2008: Hello Brian 120 Julie Poirot 23 October 2008: ! 102 H. Müller 22 October 2008: worst! 91 W. Bangert 22 October 2008: Perfide Argumentation! 58 Nicole Dietrich 21 October 2008: Absolutely inacceptable 37 Mrs H Burn 21 October 2008: How is IATA going to expain its continued greenwash and lack of reduction in greenhouse gases to future generations! 26 Berthild Lorenz 21 October 2008: Energie geht nie verloren! Physik Klasse 6 1963 Schon aus diesem Grunde müsste jeder denkende Mensch auf das Fliegen verzichten! 15 Maik Eimertenbrink 21 October 2008: Ich bin gespannt wer gewinnt (und wer den Preis dann abholt 😉 Mein persönlicher Favorit ist die International Air Transport Association (IATA), weil sie offen für Diskussionen und auf ihrem Blog überlegen, ob denn Zugfahren wirklich umweltfreundlicher sei, als zu fliegen…? Mehr: www.nachhaltigkeits-guerilla.de | |||||
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