Are the UK’s aviation and climate change policies impossible bed-fellows?
Publication date: 17 October 2006 A report launched today by the University of Oxford presents new evidence, which shows to what extent the Government’s policies on aviation fly in the face of policies on climate change. It says that by 2050, carbon dioxide emissions from UK aviation could be four to ten times higher than 1990 levels, representing up to two thirds of the government’s total emission target for that year. The report ‘Predict and Decide’ is being launched by the All Party Parliamentary Sustainable Aviation Group at the House of Lords to an invited audience of MPs, aviation industry representatives, policy makers and other stakeholders from the tourism industry. It brings together, for the first time, a range of forecasts of future aviation emissions and shows that, even when all realistic options for improvements in technology and air traffic management are considered, climate change targets can not be met without controlling demand. Current Government policy supports an
