eu airport pollution tax Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:47:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 EU Airport Pollution Tax Suspended Temporarily https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eu-airport-pollution-tax-suspended-temporarily-20121113/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eu-airport-pollution-tax-suspended-temporarily-20121113/#respond Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:47:28 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=28024 The controversial carbon tax might be suspended for a year on flights to and from non-European nations. This is the proposal given by EU executive during a general meeting on Friday of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard suggested that possible waiver of this tax would be in the […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eu-airport-pollution-tax-suspended-temporarily-20121113/feed/ 0 28024 European Airport Pollution Tax Officially Opposed by Chinese Government https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eu-airport-pollution-tax-chinese-government-20120206/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eu-airport-pollution-tax-chinese-government-20120206/#respond Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:31:20 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=22271 This news is simple at its core: the Eropean Union wants to impose pollution charges on airlines and China’s government opposes, as of today. What’s more complex is that this could degenerate into a row between EU, China and other countries not agreeing to the law and leading to fines applied to the “unlawful” airlines […]

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