Flight emissions: Think tank criticizes • Table.Briefings

The EU wants to exempt long-haul flights from the monitoring regulations for non-CO2 emissions.

The EU’s monitoring regulations for non-CO2 emissions provide for an exception for long-haul flights. This means that a large part of the climate impact of contrails is not recorded, criticizes a think tank.

The EU Commission is currently planning to exclude long-haul flights from the monitoring regulations for non-CO2 emissions. In a recent analysis, the think tank Transport & Environment (T&E) criticizes that this would ignore 67 percent of the climate impact of air traffic caused by contrails.

Flight emissions: Think tank criticizes exceptions

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