{"id":681374,"date":"2026-01-08T03:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/681374\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T03:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:49:17","slug":"trumps-shadow-looms-over-eu-aviation-emissions-plan-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/681374\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s shadow looms over EU aviation emissions plan \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European ETS vs. global CORSIA<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, the EU began taxing aviation emissions through its cap-and-trade <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ec.europa.eu\/eu-action\/carbon-markets\/about-eu-ets_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ETS<\/a>, which covers all outgoing flights from the European Economic Area \u2014 meaning EU countries plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. Switzerland and the U.K. later introduced similar schemes.<\/p>\n<p>In parallel, the U.N.\u2019s International Civil Aviation Organization was working on its own carbon reduction plan, the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation. Given that fact, Brussels <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/fr\/memo_12_854\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delayed imposing the ETS<\/a> on flights to non-European destinations.<\/p>\n<p>The EU will now be examining the ICAO\u2019s CORSIA to see if it meets the mark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCORSIA lets airlines pay pennies for pollution \u2014 about \u20ac2.50 per passenger on a Paris-New York flight,\u201d said Marte van der Graaf, aviation policy officer at green NGO Transport &amp; Environment. Applying the ETS on the same route would cost \u201c\u20ac92.40 per passenger based on 2024 traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are two reasons for such a big difference: the fourfold higher price for ETS credits compared with CORSIA credits, and the fact that \u201cunder CORSIA, airlines don&#8217;t pay for total emissions, but only for the increase above a fixed 2019 baseline,\u201d Van der Graaf explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThus, for a Paris-New York flight that emits an average of 131 tons of CO2, only 14 percent of emissions are offset under CORSIA. This means that, instead of covering the full 131 tons, the airline only has to purchase credits for approximately 18 tons.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European ETS vs. global CORSIA In 2012, the EU began taxing aviation emissions through its cap-and-trade ETS, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[18991,1306,2813,1395,50712,32,5398,18039,728,2000,299,5187,39,18510,11784,9899,856,2443,332,1398,479,1200,1201,1263,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-681374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-aviation","10":"tag-carbon","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-co2","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-emissions","15":"tag-emissions-trading-system","16":"tag-environment","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-europe","19":"tag-european","20":"tag-fuels","21":"tag-hillary-clinton","22":"tag-level-playing-field","23":"tag-ngos","24":"tag-pollution","25":"tag-regulation","26":"tag-russia","27":"tag-shipping","28":"tag-tariffs","29":"tag-tax","30":"tag-trade","31":"tag-transport","32":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115857441626181438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}