UK Transport Secretary calls for EU-US partnership on aviation, climate change initiatives as storm gather over EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme

In Washington, UK Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon called on the EU and the US to partner on regulation for a sustainable and viable aviation industry, with emphasis on a joint approach to climate change in aviation.

GreenAir Online profiled a speech by Hoon at the International Aviation Club in which the minister said, “I accept that the US aviation industry is concerned about what it sees as the imposition of the [Emissions Trading Scheme] on terms determined by the European Union. The EU came up with the ETS in the absence of concrete proposals from other nations or regions. But we are not pretending that it is the only possible scheme design in town.”

He said that if the US were to design an equivalent domestic system for emissions controls, then US flights to Europe would be exempted from EU ETS.

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